Other forms: stilts
A stilt is a pole used to raise a walker or a building above ground. Walk on stilts, a house on stilts, circus stilts.
Houses on stilts are how people live on flood plains and over water, and the space beneath keeps a building dry and cool. A stilt is also a wading bird with remarkably long pink legs.
1nounstiltA pole used to raise a walker or a building above ground.
“At the circus, a clown on stilts towered over the crowd.”
stilt is a pole.
Old English stilte names a crutch or pole, from a Germanic root.
Proto-Germanic
*stiltijǭ
Old English
*stilte
Middle English
stilte
English, today
stilt
Built from
From Middle English stilte, stulte, from Old English stilte, stylte, from Proto-Germanic stiltijǭ, staltijǭ, stultijǭ (“stilt”), from Proto-Germanic stelt- (“to be stiff”). Akin to Danish stylte, Dutch stelt, German Stelze.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA