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Definition of Stilt

1. Noun. A column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure.

2. Noun. One of two stout poles with foot rests in the middle; used for walking high above the ground. "He was so tall I thought he was on stilts"

3. Noun. Long-legged three-toed wading bird of brackish marshes of Australia.

4. Noun. Long-legged three-toed black-and-white wading bird of inland ponds and marshes or brackish lagoons.

Definition of Stilt

1. n. A pole, or piece of wood, constructed with a step or loop to raise the foot above the ground in walking. It is sometimes lashed to the leg, and sometimes prolonged upward so as to be steadied by the hand or arm.

2. v. t. To raise on stilts, or as if on stilts.

Definition of Stilt

1. Noun. Either of two poles with footrests that allow someone to stand or walk above the ground; used mostly by entertainers. ¹

2. Noun. A tall pillar or post used to support some structure; often above water. ¹

3. Noun. Any of various wading birds of the genera ''Himantopus'' and ''Cladorhynchus'', related to the avocet, that have extremely long legs and long thin bills. ¹

4. Verb. to raise on stilts, or as if on stilts ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Stilt

1. to raise on stilts (long, slender poles) [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stilt

stillman stillmen stillness stillnesses stillroom stillrooms stills stillstand stillstands stillwaterite

stilly stilpnomelane stilpnomelanes stilpnosiderite stilpnosiderites stilt (current term) stilt plover stiltbird stiltbirds stilted

stiltedly stiltedness stiltednesses stilter stilters stiltier stiltiest stiltified stiltifies stiltify

Literary usage of Stilt

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1876)
"... public school buildings, the state prison, a public library, three weekly newspapers, and nine churches. stilt, a wading bird of the avocet family, ..."

2. The Insect Book: A Popular Account of the Bees, Wasps, Ants, Grasshoppers by Leland Ossian Howard (1901)
"Some of them are very slender and have long, thin legs, from which fact they have been termed "stilt bugs." Only six species are known to occur in the ..."

3. The Insect Book: A Popular Account of the Bees, Wasps, Ants, Grasshoppers by Leland Ossian Howard (1905)
"Some of them are very slender and have long, thin legs, from which fact they have been termed "stilt bugs." Only six species are known to occur in the ..."

4. The Birds of Jamaica: Being a History of the Bird, Its Structure, and Habits by Philip Henry Gosse, Alfred Edmund Brehm, Richard Hill (1874)
"The Blackwinged stilt is a shore bird, mounted on the longest of stilts, as its name implies. This is sufficient description. For that it is black on the ..."

5. Coloured Illustrations of British Birds, and Their Eggs by Henry Leonard Meyer (1848)
"THE Black-winged stilt is occasionally met with in Britain, but is not frequent. Several ornithologists have enumerated and described British killed ..."

6. General surgery by Eugen Fröhner (1906)
"In the horse one most frequently observes an articular contracture (articular stilt- foot) during the course of an articular ringbone, ..."

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