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stalker|ˈstɔːkə(r)|
[f. stalk v.1 + -er1.
The identity of the word in sense 1 is questionable.]
†1. A kind of net used by poachers. Also stalker net. Obs.
1389Act 13 Rich. II, Stat. i. c. 19 §1 Qe null peschor..ne mette..en les ewes de Thamise..ascuns rees appelez stalkers..par les quelles le frie..des salmons..purra..pris ou destruit. 1584[see trink n.1 d]. 1667Lond. Gaz. No. 183/4 [They] did no more hurt then only by the taking up some few Stawkers or Nets laid for Lobsters.
†2. One who prowls about for purposes of theft.
1508Dunbar Flyting 156 And lyk twa stalkaris steilis in cokis and hennis, Thow plukkis the pultre, and scho pullis off the pennis.
3. One who stalks game. In early use only Sc., one who stalks game illegally, a poacher (cf. sense 1). Also fig.
1424Sc. Acts 2 Jas. I, §13 (1814) II. 7 It is ordanyt þat þe Justice clerk sall inquyre of stalkaris þat slais dere..And als sone as ony stalkar may be conuict of slauchter of der he sal pay to þe king xl s. c1575in Balfour's Practicks (1754) 542 Stalkeris that slayis hart, hind, dae, rae. 1675J. Smith Chr. Relig. App. i. 21 Had it [the World] wanted the eye of Theology, a cunning Stalker might possibly have catcht it on its blind side. 1790Grose Prov. Gloss. (ed. 2) Suppl., Stalker, a fowler. 1872Daily News 8 Oct. 3 The assembled stalkers and gillies. 1902Times 13 Nov. 13/6 Self-denying stalkers..have devoted several seasons to..sparing the better class animals.
4. One who walks with long measured steps.
1585Higins Junius' Nomencl. 522 Grallator..a stalker: a goer vpon stilts or crutches. 1601B. Jonson Poetaster iii. iv, You, player, rogue, stalker, come backe here. 1604Meeting Gallants at Ordinarie C 1 b, Away he went with himselfe as coragiously, as the best stalker in Europe. 1631J. Anchoran Comenius' Gate Tongues 215 Grallator... A stalker makes great long strides with scatches or stilts and crowches. 1865Dickens Mut. Fr. iv. ix, The stately stalker stalked back.
b. † Used as the name of a bird found in N.W. Africa (obs.). Also in Ornith., as the rendering of mod.L. Gradatores, an order of birds in certain now disused systems of classification.
Macgillivray (Brit. Birds, 1852) adopted the word as the rendering of Aucupatores (the name of an order in his own system), evidently associating it with sense 3.
1623R. Jobson Golden Trade 154 The greatest bird or fowle we see, is called a Stalker; who by reason of his long legs and necke, when he stands vpright, is in height taller then a man. 1872Coues N. Amer. Birds 240 The birds stand in wait, or stalk stealthily along; hence they are sometimes called Gradatores (stalkers).
Add:[3.] b. A person who pursues another, esp. as part of an investigation or with criminal intent; spec. one who follows or harasses someone (often a public figure) with whom he or she has become obsessed.
1947A. Ransome Great Northern? v. 72 ‘We must just go on, pretending we don't know we're being stalked...’ ‘And then the stalker will get a bit careless and let himself be seen,’ said Roger. 1971(film title) The night stalker. 1982T. Hillerman Dark Wind viii. 46 The watcher would have to make a decision: to follow or not. However he made it, Chee would be able to reverse the roles. He'd become the stalker. 1988Newsday (Nassau ed.) 14 Jan. ii. 17/1 The worst place to look for insight into a celebrity stalker..is the celebrity stalker himself. 1993Guardian 26 June i. 25/6 The former Wimbledon star once found a stalker who had been living undetected in her wardrobe for three days. 1996Independent 6 Jan. 17/6 For the quarry of a determined stalker, there is no hiding place. |