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stealcung

  • noun [ feminine ]
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Grammar
stealcung, e; f.
Stalking (cf. deer-stalking), cautious walking
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  • On sumere nihte hlosnode sum óðer munuc his færeldes and mid sleaccre stealcunge his fótswaðum filigde,

      Homl. Th. ii. 138, 6.
Etymology
[Cf. stalkyn or gon softe serpo, Prompt. Parv. 472. Though I wolde stalke and crepe, Gow. ii. 351, 18. With dredful fot than stalketh Palamon ... in that grove he wolde him hyde, Chauc. Kn. T. 621.]
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v.  stalcung.
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  • stealcung, n.