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stilt

  [stilt] ,
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–noun
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.
a. a plow handle.
b. a crutch.
–verb (used with object)
6. to raise on or as if on stilts.
Origin:
1275–1325; ME stilte; c. LG stilte pole, G Stelze

Related forms:
stiltlike, adjective
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Word Origin & History

stilt 
c.1320, "a crutch," from P.Gmc. *steltijon (cf. M.L.G., M.Du. stelte "stilt," O.H.G. stelza "plow handle, crutch"), from PIE *stel- "to put, stand, place, cause to stand" (see stall (1)). Application to "wooden poles for walking across marshy ground, etc." is from c.1440. Meaning "one of the posts on which a building is raised from the ground" is first attested 1697. Stilted in the fig. sense of "pompous, stuffy" is first recorded 1820.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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