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eye-stalks

eye-stalks is the plural of eye-stalk.

Meaning of eye-stalk

Verb

eye-stalk (third-person singular simple present eye-stalks, present participle eye-stalking, simple past and past participle eye-stalked)

  1. (herding) (Of working dogs) To intensely stare to intimidate and control livestock.
    • I'd play cribbage with the herders and Jane would push the sheep to the top of the mesa, picking up the strays as she eye-stalked-chased (worried) the stragglers.2002, Coppinger, Raymond =, Dogs : a new understanding of canine origin, behavior, and evolution, page 212
  2. (broadly) To look at someone in an evaluating or scrutinizing manner.
    • The private eye stalked the surgeon for several months but always seemed to be one step behind.1993, Flemming, Laraine E, chapter 8, in Reading for Results, page 390

Questions about eye-stalks

What is eye-stalks the plural of?
Eye-stalks is the plural of eye-stalk.

Words near eye-stalks in the dictionary

  1. eye-shade
  2. eye-shades
  3. eye-socket
  4. eye-sockets
  5. eye-stalk
  6. eye-stalks
  7. eye-strain
  8. eye-string
  9. eye-strings
  10. eye-stripe
  11. eye-stripes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: eye-stalks (page history and authors); eye-stalk (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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