stilt
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4.3
- noun
- /stɪlt/
:
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- A performer depends on strong stilts that are firmly tied.
- tall stilts
- dancers on stilts
- high stilts
Funky music, lights, women in stilts.
- Funky music, lights, women in stilts.
- Remember newspapers, kids Saw an ad in the newspaper, wanted Santa Claus on stilts.
- But you see a dude, man, they have people in wheelchairs, people in high chairs, people on crutches, people on stilts.
- And when I remember chasing around Coral Gables trying to buy you the long material, like for your your your stilts.
Examples
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A woman in lavender sequins handed out Sterno-heated pretzels, and a man wobbling on stilts saluted them.
Fiction book (2002) -
Several figures on stilts run past outside the opening, then the noise subsides.
Fiction book (1998) -
I felt like I was standing on stilts as I reached out for the phone.
Fiction book (1992) -
So he arranged for one person to be on stilts, that was me.
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Every step she took, she felt as if she were walking on stilts.
Fiction book (1998) -
My Uncle Theodore used to teach his children to walk on stilts.
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The wooden stilts, tightly bound in red cloth, are padded on the end.
Academic text (1999) -
When performing, the masked male dancers wore stilts concealed under fiber costumes and performed acrobatic feats.
Academic text (2004) -
The performer amazed the crowd by walking gracefully on stilts during the parade.
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Children at the fair enjoyed playing games while trying to balance on stilts.
Compounds
A long-legged wading bird with black head and neck that lives in American marshes
A bird with long legs that wades in shallow water and has a white body with black wings
- Australian
A long-legged bird with long pink legs and black-and-white feathers that lives in Australian marshes
- Specialized
A long-legged black and white bird that wades in shallow ponds and marshes
- Australian
A long-legged black and white bird that walks in shallow water in ponds or marshes
- Australian
A tall wading bird with long thin legs, a white head, and black wings
How Tall
Surface Forms
Etymology
Stilt comes from an old word for a 'post' or 'stick', and people used that idea for the tall poles with foot supports that let someone walk high above the ground. So stilts are like 'walking posts'.