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stilt

[stilt] / stɪlt /
















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“I went to them and said, ‘Hey, can we have one of those stilt walkers?’” says Slash, referring to the larger-than-life lurkers who haunt guests during the festivities.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 5, 2025

Encircling the footprint of each roundhouse were "middens," haloes of rubbish dumped from the stilt village above, included broken pots, butchered animal bone, and "coprolites" or fossilised faeces.

From Science Daily • Mar. 20, 2024

It was the latest of her charismatic stilt walking performances that has prompted some media to call her the muse of Rio de Janeiro’s Carnival.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 10, 2024

I mean, literally physically starving a lot of the time, and he learned to be a carnival barker, a stilt walker.

From Salon • Dec. 19, 2023

They dodged acrobats and a stilt walker and a harp player.

From "The Whipping Boy" by Sid Fleischman