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stilting|ˈstɪltɪŋ|
[f. stilt n. or v. + -ing1.]
1. The action or sport of walking on stilts.
1809Sporting Mag. XXXIII. 316 Stilting may possibly become as fashionable in these, as tilting formerly was in better times. 1906J. Paterson Wamphray vi. 165 It was not uncommon for an expert at stilting to carry a passenger across the water.
2. Arch. The placing of a ‘stilt’ (stilt n. 4 b) beneath an arch, etc. so as to raise it; concr. = stilt n. 4 b.
1835R. Willis Archit. Mid. Ages vii. 74 Both the larger and smaller vaults are raised above the entablature by stilting. 1869H. F. Tozer Highl. Turkey II. 77 The stilting above one of the pillars..is wholly out of the perpendicular. |