,| 1. | one of two poles, each with a support for the foot at some distance above the bottom end, enabling the wearer to walk with his or her feet above the ground. |
| 2. | one of several posts supporting a structure built above the surface of land or water. |
| 3. | Ceramics. a three-armed support for an object being fired. |
| 4. | any of several white-and-black wading birds, esp. Cladorhynchus leucocephalus and Himantopus himantopus, having long, bright pink legs and a long, slender black bill. |
| 5. | British Dialect.
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| 6. | to raise on or as if on stilts. |
