Definitions for stilts

stilts stilt

Spelling: [stilt]
IPA: /stɪlt/

Stilts is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 53 anagrams from letters in stilts (ilsstt).

Definitions for stilts

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.
  2. one of several posts supporting a structure built above the surface of land or water.
  3. Ceramics. a three-armed support for an object being fired.
  4. 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.
  5. British Dialect. a plow handle. a crutch.

verb (used with object)

  1. to raise on or as if on stilts.

Origin of stilts

1275-1325; Middle English stilte; cognate with Low German stilte pole, German Stelze

Examples for stilts

For the glaze firing the tile should be placed flat on the stilt.

The stilt breeds as far north as eastern Oregon, but is little seen north of southern California in the winter.

That of St. Basil, which is stilt retained by the Oriental monks; 2.

They fought with penknives and darning-needles, the battle lasted half an hour, and only one stilt was injured.

To-day the sight of a stilt walker is a curiosity almost as great at Bordeaux as at Paris.

But he said he would do his best to run out the remainder on a stilt.

In this style of stilt (Type A, Plate 41) the uprights are held beneath the arm pits.

These birds are of the plover family, and might with propriety be called the stilt plovers.

The speed that the stilt walkers attain is easily explained.

Up to recent years scarcely any merry-makings occurred in the villages of Gascony that were not accompanied with stilt races.

Word Value for stilts
Scrable

5

Words with friends

6

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