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say it: stilt
stilt is a noun meaning "a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure". It carries 4 recorded senses.
a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure
one of two stout poles with foot rests in the middle; used for walking high above the ground
“he was so tall I thought he was on stilts”
long-legged three-toed wading bird of brackish marshes of Australia
long-legged three-toed black-and-white wading bird of inland ponds and marshes or brackish lagoons
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for stilt come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.