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Stilt   /stɪlt/   Listen
Stilt

noun
1.
A column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure.  Synonyms: pile, piling, spile.
2.
One of two stout poles with foot rests in the middle; used for walking high above the ground.
3.
Long-legged three-toed wading bird of brackish marshes of Australia.  Synonym: Australian stilt.
4.
Long-legged three-toed black-and-white wading bird of inland ponds and marshes or brackish lagoons.  Synonyms: Himantopus stilt, long-legs, longlegs, stilt plover, stiltbird.



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"Stilt" Quotes from Famous Books



... higher mammals and birds is after all quite limited. By the beginnings of infancy the door for progressiveness was set ajar, but it was not all at once thrown wide open. Conservatism stilt continued in fashion. One generation of cattle is much like another. It would be easy for foxes to learn to climb frees, and many a fox might have saved his life by doing so; yet quickwitted as he is, this obvious device never seems to have occurred to Reynard. Among slightly teachable ...
— The Meaning of Infancy • John Fiske
... can be made from sticks or board strips, of sufficient length for grasping with the hands, and with foot rests nailed at any required height from the ground part. In the "Gadabout" stilt you will notice that the stilt above the foot rest is strapped to the leg, just below the knee, which leaves both hands free. Any boy with tools, timber and leather for straps can make "Gadabouts," and the arm stilt is still simpler. The natives of the Marquesas Islands ...
— Healthful Sports for Boys • Alfred Rochefort
... an effort to simulate another burst of merriment, he caught the stump of his right stilt in a pavement crack, wavered, cut in the air a figure like a geometrical proposition gone mad, and came whacking to earth in ...
— The Flirt • Booth Tarkington
... lift it from the ground, but evidently aid the great fowl in running, as it holds them outspread while it skims over the plain, perhaps using them mainly as outriggers or balancing poles in its swift passage on its stilt-like legs. The penguins convert their wings into fins while swimming through the water, the feathers ...
— Our Bird Comrades • Leander S. (Leander Sylvester) Keyser
... Lannis searched this wide, flat expanse of brilliant green. Nothing moved on it save a great heron picking its deliberate way on stilt-like legs. It was well for Quintana that ...
— The Flaming Jewel • Robert Chambers


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