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UK
/stˈɪlt/
]
[ US /ˈstɪɫt/ ]
[ US /ˈstɪɫt/ ]
NOUN
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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 - a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure
- long-legged three-toed black-and-white wading bird of inland ponds and marshes or brackish lagoons
- long-legged three-toed wading bird of brackish marshes of Australia
How To Use stilt In A Sentence
- In both the English dub and subtitles, the dialogue is a bit wordy and stilted, but it's rarely distracting.
- Yes, I know it's rather stilted, nay overwrought, prose.
- You stay in simple but comfortable thatched wooden houses, built on stilts. Times, Sunday Times
- Evans sees tree of heaven and Japanese barberry, garlic mustard and stilt grass invading the heart of the forest.
- The birds include ten species of herons including grey heron Ardea cinerea, goliath heron A. goliath and yellow-billed egret Egretta intermedia, hammerkop Scopus umbretta, four of the six West African species of stork, ducks, five of the six West African species of vulture, hawks, plovers and francolins and black-winged stilt Himantopus himantopus. Comoé National Park, Côte d'Ivoire
- And what caps this dizzy display is not seriously ordered fugato, let alone a full fugue, but a comically stilted allegro dance in duple rhythm, with octave leaps, mostly in two parts with chordal intrusions.
- The natives congregated in front of the main gate, or would peer over the walls, standing on makeshift bamboo stilts.
- And it took them three years to construct their own crannog, a timber dwelling built on stilts over the water, which links the way of life of people in 600BC with ours today.
- In this rather archaically written biography, marred by ornate, stilted language and the author's reliance on and citation of endlessly extended passages from his great-great-grandfather's autobiography, James Mellon struggles mightily but fails to make his readers care much for or about Thomas Mellon. Banking On the Future
- One pretty little wader, an avoset, appears as if standing on stilts, its legs are so long; and its bill seems bent the wrong way, or upward. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
