stalke

Noun

 * 1) stalk (main stem of a plant)
 * 2) * late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Knight's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 1033-1036:
 * "enm"

- This passeth yeer by yeer, and day by day, Til it fil ones, in a morwe of May, That Emelye, that fairer was to sene Than is the lilie upon his stalke grene, [...]