stilt

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English

Stilts (walking poles).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪlt

Etymology

Akin to Danish stylte, German Stelze.

Noun

stilt (plural stilts)

1. Either of two poles with footrests that allow someone to stand or walk above the ground; used mostly by entertainers.
2. A tall pillar or post used to support some structure; often above water.
3. Any of various wading birds of the genera Himantopus and Cladorhynchus, related to the avocet, that have extremely long legs and long thin bills.

Translations

walking pole

• Catalan: xanca (ca) f
• Czech: chůdy m pl (stilts)
• Dutch: stelt (nl) f
• Estonian: kark (et)
• Finnish: puujalka (fi)
• French: échasse (fr) f
• German: Stelze (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient: κωλόβαθρον (kôlábathron) n

• Hungarian: gólyaláb (hu)
• Irish: cos croise (ga) f
• Italian: trampolo (it) m
• Korean: 죽마 (ko) (jungma)
• Polish: szczudło n
• Portuguese: perna-de-pau (pt) f
• Russian: ходуля (ru) (xodúlja) f
• Serbo-Croatian: ходуља (sh) (hodulja) f, гигаља (sh) (gigalja) f, штула (sh) (štula) f
• Spanish: zanco (es) m

pillar

• Dutch: stelt (nl) f
• Finnish: paalu (fi), tolppa (fi)
• French: pilotis (fr) m
• Irish: cos taca (ga) f

• Italian: trampolo (it) m
• Russian: свая (svája) f
• Spanish: pilote (es) m

bird

• Dutch: steltloper (nl) m
• Finnish: pitkäjalka (fi)
• French: échassier (fr) m
• German: Stelzenläufer m

• Italian: cavaliere d'Italia (it) m
• Russian: кулик (ru) (kulík) m
• Spanish: cigüeñuela f

Verb

stilt (third-person singular simple present stilts, present participle stilting, simple past and past participle stilted)

1. to raise on stilts, or as if on stilts

Anagrams

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