stilt

as inlanky
as inlean
as inspare
as inthin
as inlank
as intwiggy
as inweedy
as inleg
as inpole
as inpost
as insupport
as inupraise
as inuprear
as inelevate

Synonyms for stilt

adj tall and thin

Antonyms for stilt

Word Origin & History

early 14c., "a crutch," from Proto-Germanic *steltijon (cf. Middle Low German, Middle Dutch stelte "stilt," Old High German stelza "plow handle, crutch"), from PIE root *stel- "to put, stand" (see stall (n.1)). Application to "wooden poles for walking across marshy ground, etc." is from mid-15c. Meaning "one of the posts on which a building is raised from the ground" is first attested 1690s. Stilted in the figurative sense of "pompous, stuffy" is first recorded 1820.

Example Sentences for stilt

For the glaze firing the tile should be placed flat on the stilt.

In this style of stilt (Type A, Plate 41) the uprights are held beneath the arm pits.

But he said he would do his best to run out the remainder on a stilt.

The speed that the stilt walkers attain is easily explained.

That of St. Basil, which is stilt retained by the Oriental monks; 2.

These birds are of the plover family, and might with propriety be called the stilt plovers.

The stilt breeds as far north as eastern Oregon, but is little seen north of southern California in the winter.

They fought with penknives and darning-needles, the battle lasted half an hour, and only one stilt was injured.

Up to recent years scarcely any merry-makings occurred in the villages of Gascony that were not accompanied with stilt races.

To-day the sight of a stilt walker is a curiosity almost as great at Bordeaux as at Paris.

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elevates

elevating

lank

lanky

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