stalking

Meanings

Verb

• Present participle of stalk

Noun

• The act of going stealthily.
• Hunting for game by moving silently and stealthily or by waiting in ambush.
• The crime of following or harassing another person, causing him or her to fear death or injury.
• The removal of stalks from bunches of grapes prior to winemaking.

Origin

• From Middle English stalkynge, stalkyng, from Old English stealcung, from Proto-West Germanic *stalkungu, equivalent to stalk + -ing.
• From stalk#Etymology_1 + -ing.