Stilt

Definition: Stilt

Stilt

Noun

1. A column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure.

2. One of two stout poles with foot rests in the middle; used for walking high above the ground; "he was so tall I thought he was on stilts".

3. Long-legged three-toed wading bird of brackish marshes of Australia.

4. Long-legged three-toed black-and-white wading bird of inland ponds and marshes or brackish lagoons.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Mining

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Synonyms: Stilt

Crosswords: Stilt

Books

• Black stilt (reference)

• Road to the stilt house (reference)

• Stilt Jack (reference)

• The Brown Stilt House (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The stilt village of Ukivok - this is now deserted. Credit: America's Coastlines.

ACE Basin National Estuarine Research Reserve. A black-necked stilt hunting for its dinner. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Stilt. Credit: Bob Hines.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Expressions using "stilt": australian stilt ♦ banded stilt ♦ himantopus stilt ♦ stilt bird ♦ stilt plover ♦ stilt root ♦ stilt sandpiper. Additional references.

Beginning with "stilt": stilt-like, stilt-makers, stilt-sandpiper, stilt-walking.

Albanian

këmbalkë (fin, reading desk), këmbalec (climber, coach box, rack, trestle). (various references)

Arabic 

‏طوالة الرجل, ‏الطول طائر مائي, ‏ركيزة (crutch, mounting, outrigger, pier, pillar, prop, stanchion, string, strut). (various references)

Bulgarian 

крак (foot, leg, paddle, peg, podium, shank), кокил. (various references)

Chinese 

高跷. (various references)

Czech

chodit na chùdách, chùda. (various references)

Danish

styrestang (control rod, handlebar, push rod, tie-rod), styr (dowel, dowel pin, handlebar), stjært (handles), håndtag (button, control lever, grip, hand grip, handle, handles, key). (various references)

Dutch

ploegstaarten (handles), ploegstaart (frog, handlebar). (various references)

Farsi 

پادراز, میله (Axle, Bar, Beam, Filament, Gad, Lever, Pivot, Rod, Shaft, Slat, Spike, Stem, Style), چوب پا, عصای زیربغل (Crutch), باچوب پاراه رفتن . (various references)

Finnish

pönkkäjuuri (branch root, prop root, stilt root). (various references)

French

pilotis, mancherons de charrue, mancherons, mancheron, échasse (standard). (various references)

German

Stelze (wagtail). (various references)

Greek 

ξυλοπόδαρο. (various references)

Hebrew 

קב (crutch), כלו� ס �"ליכ�". (various references)

Hungarian

gólyaláb (wooden leg), cölöp (pale, peg, pile, pole, post, spile, stake), partfutó (dunlin, stint), gázlómadár (wader, wading bird), dúc (brace, bracket, buttress, crutch, prop, stanchion, stereo, stoop, strutter, tree). (various references)

Italian

stegole di aratro (handles), stegole (handles), stegola (handlebar), trampolo, palo (pale, pile, pole, post, shaft, spar, stake). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

�"ストン輸送 (ice axe, period, periodic, PHS portable phone, piccolo, pick, picking, pickoff play, pickup service, pilaf, pile, Pilgrim Fathers, pill, pilling, pipette, piranha, pit, pit stop, pitch, pitcher, pitcher's mound, pitching, pitching machine, pitchout, Pithecanthropus erectus, pivot, pizza, pizzicato, Pulitzer, pure, pure malt, puree, purist, Puritan, pyramid, pyramid selling, pyrine, shuttle, splashing sound). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

�"ロティ (pile). (various references)

Korean 

죽마. (various references)

Manx

maidjey coshey, corraghan. (various references)

Pig Latin

iltstay

Portuguese

rabiças da charrua (handles), rabiças (handles), rabiça (handlebar), pernilongo (crane-fly, daddy-long-legs, gnat, leggy), perna de pau, esteva (handlebar). (various references)

Russian 

ходуля. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

štula, štakara. (various references)

Spanish

zanco. (various references)

Swedish

stylta. (various references)

Turkish

sütun (column, columnar, pillar, post, pylon, scape, shaft), kıyı koşarı (stilt bird), cambaz ayaklığı, akrobatların taktıkları çok uzun ayaklar. (various references)

Ukrainian

стояк (buttress, pile, prop, riser, stake, strut, stud), ходуля, опора (anchorage, anchorage-ground, backing, bearer, buttress, cradle, crutch, footing, holdfast, pillar, reliance, stay, steady, stock, support, tower). (various references)

Welsh

ystudfach. (various references)

eschace. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "stilt": stilted, stiltedly, stiltedness, stiltednesses, stilting, stilts. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Stilt" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: astilt, Estelit, est-il, Scilt, shilt, silth, skilt, stalg, stelt, stelth, stict, stihl, stil, stila, stilte, stilth, stily, stit, stitle, stolt, Stoltz, stylet, stylte, stylx, swilt. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: tilts.

-1 letter: list, lits, silt, slit, tils, tilt, tits.

-2 letters: its, lis, lit, sit, til, tis, tit.

-3 letters: is, it, li, si, ti.

+1 letter: lutist, stilts, tilths, titles.

+2 letters: altoist, cultist, elitist, flutist, glottis, kittles, lattins, leftist, lithest, litotes, litters, littles, lutists, skittle, slitted, slitter, spittle, spotlit, starlit, stilted, stylist, stylite, tastily, testily, thistle, thistly, tilters, titlist, tittles, toilets, uptilts, vittles, wittols.

+3 letters: altoists, altruist, blithest, brittles, cattails, cuittles, cultists, elitists, entitles, fatalist, flattish, flautist, flitters, flutiest, flutists, glitters, intitles, joltiest, kittlest, lathiest, lattices, leftists, lightest, lintiest, littlest, littlish, loftiest, lustiest, lutanist, lutenist, maltiest, metalist, miltiest, mistitle, motliest, otoliths, platiest, plotties, politest, rattails, retitles, sagittal, saltiest, settling, siltiest, skittles, slatiest, slatting, slitters, slitting, slotting, sluttier, sluttish, smaltite, smuttily, snottily, spittles, splitter, spottily, statical, stilbite, stiletto, stillest, stilting, straitly, strictly, stultify, stylists, stylites, stylitic, subtilty, subtitle, swiftlet, talipots, talkiest, talliths, telestic, tertials, testicle, textiles, thelitis, thistles, tillites, tintless, titlarks, titlists, titulars, totalise, totalism, totalist, triolets, triplets, tristful, trustily, ultraist, vitalist, whittles, wristlet.