stilts in English

noun
1
either of a pair of upright poles with supports for the feet enabling the user to walk at a distance above the ground.
The entertainers stood out from the crowd, especially the drag queen on top of an eight foot high pair of stilts .
2
a long-billed wading bird with predominantly black and white plumage and long slender reddish legs.
You're likely to see waders as well as a variety of herons, stilts , and even the endangered West Indian whistling duck.
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1. Avocets, like stilts, are wetland inhabitants

2. An indoor ladder grew stilts, turned into stairs.

3. Dom Pérignon served by waiters on stilts

4. When did you start walking on stilts?

5. There are fewer than 10 species of stilts and Avocets, …

6. How about taking a walk with me on stilts?

7. " That makes you wobble like you 're walking on stilts . "

8. And I walk, balancing on these two stilts, high above the floor.

9. I mean, it's a little bit like wearing stilts on stilts, but I have an entirely new relationship to door jams that I never expected I would ever have.

10. ( SEE BELOW ) "I am Besuited Sarah Jessica Parker on stilts this moment

11. Unless I strap on stilts, I'm going to stumble my way down the aisle.

12. Mom got scared the day I looked up the world record for walking on the tallest stilts...

13. 12 In times of crisis, you get a public reaction that is incoherence on stilts.

14. Each Kirikiri family has several houses standing on wooden stilts made out of tree bark and palm thatch.

15. In another setting, he turned somersaults on stilts on a rope stretched 170 feet [52 m] above the ground.

16. He knew his best friend, Chief Taylor, would stand by him and that Stilts would have to Capitulate.

17. After the peanuts are dried, they are stored in a house made of grass mats and mud and built on stilts.

18. Shorebirds such as American Avocets and Black-necked Stilts are nesting and raising their next generation, as they have for generations.

19. In Hétin, a village in a marshy area, most houses are on stilts and pirogues are the main means of transportation.

20. Famous for its canals, pagodas, and houses on stilts, the city has been a hub of commerce, politics, and religion for over 1,000 years.

21. The camp offers rustic accommodation in grass/reed huts build on stilts that ensure safety from wild animals and provide an unlimited view of the Luangwa River.

22. It's got two people inside it on stilts, which give them the height, and somebody in the front who's using a kind of steering wheel to move that head.

23. Stilts and Avocets are long – legged, long – beaked wading birds of the muddy shores of shallow lakes and lagoons, including both fresh and saline waters

24. The Island Bush Camp offers rustic accommodation in grass/reed huts build on stilts that ensure safety from wild animals and provide an unlimited view of the Luangwa River.

25. ‘Shorebirds, for those of you who want to know but are afraid to ask, comprise many families of birds, including oystercatchers, stilts, Avocets, plovers, turnstones, sandpipers and phalaropes.’

26. The Island Bush Camp offers rustic accommodation in grass/reed huts built on stilts that ensure safety from wild animals and provide an unlimited view of the Luangwa River, Zambia.

27. After that, he did so each time with a different display of his ability: blindfolded, in a sack, trundling a wheelbarrow, on stilts, and carrying a man on his back.

28. I ts curved sides funnel the wind and it stands on stilts that can be raised to accommodate the build-up of snow which accumulates at a rate of 20 centimetres every year.

29. What, we wondered, would a rich birding time be like, as American Avocets and black-necked stilts in the hundreds wheeled and screamed overhead and flocks of white pelicans and white-faced ibises soared discreetly in the distance