Thesaurus / stilts
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synonyms for stilts
- beam
- flagpole
- leg
- mast
- rod
- stick
- extremity
- flagstaff
- pile
- plank
- shaft
- spar
- staff
- stake
- standard
- stave
- stilt
- stud
- terminus
- panel
- pole
- column
- doorpost
- leg
- mast
- newel
- pale
- palisade
- pedestal
- picket
- pile
- pillar
- prop
- rail
- shaft
- stake
- standard
- stilt
- stock
- stud
- backing
- abutment
- agency
- back
- base
- bed
- bedding
- block
- brace
- buttress
- collar
- column
- cornerstone
- device
- flotation
- foothold
- footing
- foundation
- fulcrum
- groundwork
- guide
- hold
- lining
- means
- medium
- pillar
- platform
- pole
- post
- prop
- rampart
- reinforcement
- rest
- rib
- rod
- shore
- stake
- stanchion
- stave
- stay
- stiffener
- stilt
- substratum
- substructure
- sustentation
- timber
- underpinning
- boost
- erect
- fetch up
- heave
- heighten
- hike up
- hoist
- jack up
- levitate
- lift
- pick up
- poise
- pump
- put up
- pyramid
- raise
- ramp
- rear
- shoot up
- stilt
- take up
- tilt
- uphold
- uplift
- upraise
- heighten
- raise
- uplift
- erect
- hoist
- levitate
- poise
- pump
- pyramid
- ramp
- rear
- tilt
- uphold
- upraise
- fetch up
- hike up
- jack up
- put up
- shoot up
- stilt
- take up
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
How to use stilts in a sentence
A-course, when I reached Chicago, the first 238 thing I done was to take a fly at that railroad on stilts.
ALEC LLOYD, COWPUNCHERELEANOR GATESThe marshals were pierrots and clowns on long stilts, who towered in a ghostly way above the crowd.
WHEN VALMOND CAME TO PONTIAC, COMPLETEGILBERT PARKERHe was a very big man, with great red cheeks that hung over his collar like blown bladders, and was always on stilts.
EAST ANGLIAJ. EWING RITCHIE"She certainly could move her proud stilts a little quicker when she sees how Mea is running," Kurt said angrily.
MAEZLIJOHANNA SPYRII now abandoned my stilts and my bow and arrows, and marched off with my chiefs in the direction of our late opponents.
THE ADVENTURES OF LOUIS DE ROUGEMONTLOUIS DE ROUGEMONTOne of them was amusing himself prancing around the place on a pair of child's stilts.
OVER THE FRONT IN AN AEROPLANE AND SCENES INSIDE THE FRENCH AND FLEMISH TRENCHESRALPH PULITZERThe old man moved fairly quickly, with a motion as though he were on stilts.
A DESPERATE CHARACTER AND OTHER STORIESIVAN TURGENEVHe began trying to cheer up the brigadier, who was still hurrying forward with a tottering motion as though he were on stilts.
A DESPERATE CHARACTER AND OTHER STORIESIVAN TURGENEVFourth team—he's getting beyond his work—too old; the stilts nearly threw him over there.
THE HILLS AND THE VALERICHARD JEFFERIESA cannery looking nearly new stood at the top of a tall dock on stilts.
OVER THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS TO ALASKACHARLES WARREN STODDARD