stalker
- A person who engages in stalking, i.e., quietly approaching animals to be hunted; a tracker or guide in hunting game.
- A person who secretly follows someone, sometimes with unlawful intentions.
- Any of various devices for removing the stalk from plants during harvesting.
- Any bird that walks with a stalking motion.
- (obsolete) A kind of fishing net.
- A horse that tends to stay just behind the leaders in a race.
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From Middle English stalkere, equivalent to stalk + -er.
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