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▪ I. stalking, vbl. n.|ˈstɔːkɪŋ|
[f. stalk v.1 + -ing1.]
The action of stalk v.1; † stealthy movement (obs.); pursuit of game by the method of stealthy approach.
c1000ælfric Hom. (Th.) II. 138 On sumere nihte hlosnode sum oðer munuc his færeldes and mid sleaccre stalcunge his fotswaðum filiᵹde. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. ii. xix. (1495) 46 Yf the fende maye not dysceyue wyth stalkynge he puttyth to ferfull gastness and drede. c1440Promp. Parv. 472/1 Stalkynge, or soft and sly goynge, serptura. c1460York Myst. xxx. 157 With no stalkyng nor no striffe be ye stressed. 1503–4Act 19 Hen. VII, c. 11 The grettest destruccion of Reed Deere and Falowe..is with Nettis..and stalking with beestis. 1533in Archæologia XXV. 522 Item delyvered to my hosbond..when he went a stalkynge for master tresurer. 1553Respublica i. iii. 160 Theare was..such herkenynge, suche stalking, suche watching, such spyinge. 1853Kane Grinnell Exped. xii. (1856) 86 The Esquimaux..by a patient process of stalking, succeed in getting within rifle shot.
b. attrib. as stalking engine, stalking gelding, stalking-ground, stalking ox, stalking-shoe, stalking-system. Also stalking-horse.
1531Privy Purse Exp. Hen. VIII (1827) 112 Paied to a servant of my lorde lisles in Rewarde for bringing of the Stalking Oxe, x s. Ibid. 132 For the mete of the kingis white stalking guelding. 1621Markham Fowling x. 64 The last of these stalking Engines is the dead hedge of two or three yards long. 1850R. G. Cumming Hunter's Life S. Afr. (1902) 77/2, I resolved to try the stalking-system with these, and to hunt the troop of bulls with dogs and horses. 1860G. H. K. in Galton Vac. Tour. (1861) 116 When we reach the stalking-ground. 1900Pollok & Thom Sports Burma 253 My stalking shoes.
▸ spec. The action, practice, or crime of harassing or persecuting a person with unwanted, obsessive, and usually threatening attention over an extended period of time.
1984Los Angeles Times 28 Aug. v. 8/1 Though dozens of novels have centered upon the stalking of a young woman by an obsessed man, few writers have switched the roles of the principal characters. 1990Orange County Reg. (Nexis) 26 Mar. a1 A new crime of ‘stalking’ that would make it illegal to continually threaten or intimidate another person with violence. 1998B. Elton Blast from Past (1999) ii. 17 The law at the time did not even recognize stalking as a crime. 2003Ladies' Home Jrnl. Nov. 42/1 Unfortunately, this new breed of Internet-based stalking..isn't at all uncommon.
▪ II. stalking, ppl. a.|ˈstɔːkɪŋ|
[f. stalk v.1 + -ing2.]
That stalks.
†1. Stealthy. Obs.
a1400Pol., Rel., & L. Poems (1903) 254 [Death is] Stille and eke stalkinge.
2. Walking with great strides.
1560T. Phaer æneid ix. (1562) F fij b, With stalking doubtful steps. 1581A. Hall Iliad iii. 45 Paris with stalking pace aduauncde himself to the Greekes warde. 1590Spenser F.Q. i. vii. 10 His [the giant Orgoglio's] stalking steps are stayde Vpon a snaggy Oke. 1607Puritan iii. v. 84 Haue you neuer seene a stalking-stamping Player. 1700Dryden Ovid's Met. xiii, Acis, Pol. & Gal. 44 Thus, warn'd in vain, with stalking pace he strode. 1757Smollett Reprisal i. vi. 18 That proud, stalking Highlander. 1909Crockett My Two Edinburghs, A long-legged, stalking, wonder-stricken boy of fifteen.
b. said of long-legged birds.
1697Dryden Virg. Georg. i. 413 That's the proper Time..For stalking Cranes to set the guileful Snare. 1847Gloss. Heraldry 294 Stalking, walking: a term applied to long-legged birds.
c. of ghosts. Also fig. of baleful agencies.
1697Dryden Virg. Past. viii. 142 To call from tombs the stalking Ghosts. 1792M. Wollstonecraft Rights Wom. vi. 266 Like some other stalking mischiefs. 1831Gen. P. Thompson Exerc. (1842) I. 363 The grand stalking wrong, that was at the bottom of the well or ill directed resistance of the community.
†d. fig. Of style, etc.: Pompous, grandiloquent. Obs.
1601B. Jonson Poetaster iii. iv, Goe, he pens high, loftie, in a new stalking straine. 1806W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. IV. 612 The stalking pomp of theatrical declamation.
Hence ˈstalkingly adv.
1891Meredith One of Conq. II. v. 124 Contempt of any supposed affectation, which was not ostentatiously, stalkingly practised to subdue the sex. |