stilt
/stilt/US // stɪlt //UK // (stɪlt) //
高跷,高脚椅,高楼大厦,高架桥
Related Words
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Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : one of two poles, each with a support for the foot at some distance above the bottom end, enabling the wearer to walk with his or her feet above the ground.
- : one of several posts supporting a structure built above the surface of land or water.
- : Ceramics. a three-armed support for an object being fired.
- : any of several white-and-black wading birds, especially Cladorhynchus leucocephalus and Himantopus himantopus, having long, bright pink legs and a long, slender black bill.
- : British Dialect. a plow handle.a crutch.
v.有主动词 verb
- 1
- : to raise on or as if on stilts.
Synonyms & Antonyms
as inlanky
Forms: stilted, stilting, stilts
Examples
The cheery blue puffs suspended atop ladderlike stilts suggested heaven was attainable.
With the utmost caution he came over the high sedges on his stilt-like legs to the brink of the creek and posed.
These birds are of the plover family, and might with propriety be called the stilt plovers.
The stilt breeds as far north as eastern Oregon, but is little seen north of southern California in the winter.
You notice that, unlike those stilt-walkers, the herons, the flamingoes have webbed feet.
But he said he would do his best to run out the remainder on a stilt.
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