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- noun Plural form of
stilt .
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Examples
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Sponsors were giving away hand warmers, foam hockey sticks and three men stood in stilts with hockey sticks to match.
Frozen Confines game features atmosphere of a rock concert 2009
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Skating on stilts is evidently hard for some — but not so hard for others.
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This walking on stilts is very general in the deep sands of this country.
The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B. 1903
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On the one hand you giveth unto me a cheerleading routine set to "Ray of Light" on stilts, which is pretty much the essence of all my desires.
My growing feminism will cut you in half like a righteous blade of equality. karenhealey 2010
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The stilts were the height of my knee, carved of wood like pattens, and painted with red and white stripes.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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The stilts were the height of my knee, carved of wood like pattens, and painted with red and white stripes.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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The stilts were the height of my knee, carved of wood like pattens, and painted with red and white stripes.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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If you can see, the rush of the flood waters have -- this house actually sits on stilts, which is rather common for this part of area.
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Less touristy was a Lao village, houses on stilts, which is where Ai's grandfather came from.
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He that should celebrate a captain that had the good fortune to worst the enemy in a skirmish, to the degree of a Caesar or an Alexander, would wonderfully stretch and overdo, and render the poor man ridiculous, instead of glorious: and every one that measures his actions by any elogies given him by the flatterer, sets his reputation upon stilts, which is not the surest way of standing; and when he comes to be weighed in the balance of the impartial and the judicious, will be found wanting.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V. 1634-1716 1823
minouchette commented on the word stilts
legs
October 8, 2010