stilt
/stɪlt/
noun
- One of a pair of long poles with footrests, used to walk above the ground.
- Children often try to balance on homemade stilts in the park.
- The clown walked around the circus on tall stilts.
- Workers used stilts to reach the ceiling while painting.
- A long post or pillar that supports a building above ground or water.
- The beach house was built on wooden stilts to protect it from high tides.
- Many houses in flood-prone areas are raised on stilts.
- The pier rested on concrete stilts driven deep into the seabed.
- A wading bird with very long, thin legs, typically found in marshes.
- The stilt uses its long legs to hunt for insects in the mud.
- We spotted a stilt walking gracefully through the wetland.
- A black-necked stilt was feeding in the shallow water.