stiltn.

Brit.

/stɪlt/, U.S.

/stɪlt/

Forms: Also Middle English–1500s stilte, Middle English–1500s stylt(e.

Etymology: Middle English stilte, cognate with (Middle) Low German, Middle Dutch stelte (modern Low German stelte, stilte, Dutch stelt), Old High German stelza (Middle High German, modern German stelze), Swedish stylta, Danish stylte; also Low German stelter, Norwegian styltra. The relation between the forms is somewhat obscure; they apparently point to three Germanic ablaut-types *steltjōn- , *staltjōn- , *stultjōn- . The Germanic root *stelt- ( < pre-Germanic *steld- ) conjectured to mean ‘to walk stiffly’, seems to be represented also in Middle High German stolzen to limp, Swedish stulta to totter, stagger, and perhaps (if the word be native Germanic) in Old Frisian stult , Low German stolt , High German stolz stately, proud (see stout adj.).

1. The handle of a plough. Occasionally also with reference to other farm implements. dialect.

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the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > ploughing equipment > [noun] > plough > plough-tail or stilt

startOE

stiltc1340

plough-start1440

tail1466

plough handle?c1475

steer-tree1483

plough stilt?1523

plough-tail?1523

stilking?1523

steer1552

hale?1570

stive1693

plough-tree1799

by-tail1879

c1340 Nominale (Skeat) 854 Manuel et tenoun Handle and stilte.

?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. ii The plough stylt is on the right syde of the plough, whervpon the rest [is set] the rest is a lyttell pease of wode pynned fast vpon the nether ende and to the sharbeam in y^e forther ende.

1581 in J. Anderson Cal. Laing Charters (1899) 256 [The sheriff-depute] deliverit the plewch stilt in the said Davidis handis vpone the arabill grownd thairof.

1652 W. Blith Eng. Improver Improved xxviii. 189 For the Plough-handles, some call them Stilts, and some Hales, and some Staves.

1798 C. Cruttwell Univ. Gazetteer (1808) at Pomona The plough..is of singular construction, having only one stilt.

1829 W. Scott Rob Roy (new ed.) I. Introd. p. lxxxviii He..shot MacLaren when between the stilts of his plough.

1840 Penny Cycl. XVIII. 272/1 The stilts or handles, of which there may be one or two, direct the plough.

1880 A. J. Munby Dorothy 35 Driving her furrows so straight..Guiding the stilts with a grasp skilful and strong as a man's.

1957 E. E. Evans Irish Folk Ways x. 129 The Irish were amazed when they first saw a ploughman with a Scots plough both driving the horses and holding the stilts.

1971 Country Life 20 May 1203/1 I take the ‘stilts’ of the big grass cutter and struggle behind it.

1973 Country Life 22 Feb. 474/1 My going to the plough that morning wasn't the first occasion upon which I had set my hands to the stilts.

a. A crutch. Obsolete exc. dialect.In quot. 1520² applied to a crutch-headed walking-stick as figured on a brass.

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the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > surgical supports > [noun] > crutch

crutchc900

crosec1330

stiltc1330

potent1348

croche14..

staff1483

potencea1500

crutchet1611

plyer1699

c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 2956 On astilt he com þo Ful swiþe.

c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn l. 2380 A Crepill he saw comyng..Oppon a stilt vndir his kne.

1520 Lyfe Ioseph of Armathia (Pynson) sig. B.i Verely she was heled and lefte her styltes thore And on her fete wente home resonably well.

1520 Brass in Ingoldmells Church Pray for the sowle of Wylliam Palmer wyth the stylt.

c1590 C. Marlowe Jew of Malta ii. 977 (Brooke) I haue laugh'd agood to see the cripples Goe limping home to Christendome on stilts.

1658 W. Johnson tr. F. Würtz Surgeons Guid ii. xxvi. 170 This party carried it [a recovered limb] as well as any did with a stilt.

1697 in M'Kerlie's Hist. Lands Galloway (1870) I. 245 You..did..beatt her almost to death with the stilt wherewith she walked.

a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Stilts, crutches.

†b. gen. A prop, support. In quot. 1633 figurative. Obsolete.

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the world > space > relative position > support > [noun] > that which supports > prop

stipera1000

prop1440

shorec1440

lega1475

stut1559

spurn1620

stilt1633

Dutchman1859

1633 A. Johnston Diary (1911) I. 34 God as it wer..up~halding the by three stilts of fayth love and hope.

a. Each of a pair of props, usually slender wooden poles with a foot-rest some distance above the lower end, for enabling a person to walk with the feet raised from the ground, as over a marshy place, a stream, etc., the upper end being held by the hand or under the arm, or (in a modified form) strapped to the legs, or formerly sometimes fastened beneath the feet. (The ordinary current sense.) Phrase, to walk on (formerly †in) stilts.

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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > other means of conveyance > [noun] > stilts

stiltc1440

scatch1542

Tom Walker1899

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 475/2 Stylte, calepodium, lignipodium.

c1460 Burlesque in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 86 Dore-bundys stalkyng one stylttus.

1519 W. Horman Vulgaria xxxii. f. 279 Let vs daunce patende or with styltis.

1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. V4^v To consume my bodie as slender as a stilt or a broome-staffe.

1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 491 Fen-men..who stalking on high upon stilts, apply their mindes, to grasing, fishing, and fowling.

1715 J. Addison Spectator No. 559. ¶6 One of these looked like a Man walking upon Stilts.

1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond I. i. 25 The actors in the old tragedies,..speaking from under a mask, and wearing stilts and a great head-dress.

1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola I. viii. 137 Those mysterious giants were really men..balancing themselves on stilts.

b. transferred. Applied to long slender legs, or other natural supports (quot. 1665), of an animal, esp. a bird (cf. sense 5).

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the world > animals > birds > parts of or bird defined by > [noun] > legs

stilt1598

the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [noun] > limb > fore limb or leg > long or slender

stilt1598

1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. 50 b Those which we saye to be hipped and legged, or have a payere of goode and stedfast stiltes vnder them.

1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 26 This fish..wanting fins; in place whereof she is aided with two paps, which are not only suckles, but serve for stilts to creep a shoar upon.

1709 T. Robinson Vindic. Mosaick Syst. 66 in Ess. Nat. Hist. Westmorland & Cumberland Herns..walking by the Sides of shallow Rivulets upon long Stilts.

1835 R. Owen in Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 272/1 Birds that seek their food in water..wade into rivers and marshes on elevated stilts, as in the Crane, &c.

c. figurative or in figurative expressions, usually with allusion to the artificially raised position or long strides of a person walking on stilts: cf. stilted adj. 2.

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the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [noun]

affectation1548

affection1570

phantastry1656

stilt1735

fal-lal1775

coxcombality1785

meemaw1790

posture-making1797

attitudinarianism1803

attitudinizing1812

piminy1819

stiltishness1824

niminy-piminyism1840

gyvera1866

notion1866

attitudinization1871

effectism1871

jam1882

chichi1908

poncing1969

pseudery1972

the world > space > relative position > high position > [noun] > quality of being raised or elevated > raised or elevated position

stilt1735

1735 tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. V. 80 His muse seemed rather to walk in stilts, than in the buskins of his own invention.

1752 H. Fielding Amelia II. v. i. 97 Booth offered to explain, but to no Purpose; the Colonel was got into his Stilts.

1781 H. Walpole Let. to W. Mason 14 Apr. Hurlothrumbo talked plain English in comparison of this wight on stilts [Dr. Johnson].

1818 W. Hazlitt Lect. Eng. Poets i. 20 When artists or connoisseurs talk on stilts about the poetry of painting.

1826 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. (ed. 2) I. ii. 26 [Ld. Brooke] Ambition is but Avarice on stilts and masked.

1861 C. Benson in Macmillan's Mag. Feb. 275 The whole audience raised itself on the stilts of expectation.

1883 H. Caine Cobwebs Crit. vii. 199 Lifting himself into notoriety on the stilts of blasphemy.

4. In various technical senses.

a. Each of a set of posts or piles on which a building (esp. of primitive construction) is raised from the ground, or which are fixed under water to support the pier of a bridge, etc. (In quot. 1697 transferred; cf. sense 3b.)

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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > specific parts built or constructed > [noun] > foundation(s) > pile(s)

pilelOE

piling1422

spile1513

piloti1674

stilt1697

drift1721

bearing pile?1761

sheet-piling1789

sheeting-pile1837

screw pile1840

sheet-pile1841

sheath-piling1902

1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World iii. 54 Neither the black nor white Mangrove grow towering up from stilts or rising roots, as the red doth; but the body immediately out of the ground, like other Trees.

1712 E. Cooke Voy. S. Sea 315 The Houses are built with split Bamboes,..standing on Stilts, or Posts.

1739 C. Labelye Short Acct. Piers Westm. Bridge 42 Which method is commonly called building upon stilts.

1772 C. Hutton Princ. Bridges 100 Stilts, a set of piles driven into the space intended for the pier, whose tops being sawed level off about low-water mark, the pier is then raised on them.

1860 Burn's Gloss. Techn. Terms 4 Stilts, piles driven into a river at small intervals, and a surrounding row of piles driven closely together, and the interstices filled with stones, to form a foundation for a pier to be built upon.

1883 I. L. Bird Golden Chersonese 217 Below there is a village, with clusters of Chinese houses on the ground, and Malay houses on stilts, standing singly.

b. Architecture. A vertical course of masonry placed beneath and continuous with an arch or vault so as to raise the springing of it above the general level, or for a similar purpose beneath or above a column. Cf. stilt v. 1b, stilted adj. 1b (b).

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > other elements > [noun] > stilt

stilt1835

stilting1835

1835 R. Willis Remarks Archit. Middle Ages vii. 77 The latter [i.e. clerestory or longitudinal arches] are raised upon stilts,..so as to throw their imposts considerably above those of the transverse arches.

1842 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 5 80/1 The continuous stilt or too lofty stylobate of the College of Surgeons.

1908 L. Milman Sir Christopher Wren 206 Corinthian pilasters, which, by a two-fold stilt above their capitals, reach to the great cornice.

†c. Some appendage to a bell. (Perhaps = stay n.² 2h.) Obsolete.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > percussion instrument > bell > [noun] > other parts

yokeOE

stirrup1341

cod1379

bell-string1464

frame1474

stock1474

ear1484

poop1507

bell-wheel1529

skirt1555

guarder1583

imp1595

tab1607

jennet1615

pluck1637

bell-rope1638

cagea1640

cannon1668

stilt1672

canon1688

crown1688

sound-bow1688

belfry1753

furniture1756

sounding bow1756

earlet1833

brima1849

busk-board1851

headstock1851

sally hole1851

slider1871

mushroom head1872

sally beam1872

pit1874

tolling-lever1874

sally-pin1879

sally-pulley1901

sally-wheel1901

1672 in W. O. Blunt 1000 Years Church in Chester-le-Street (1884) 98 For cotterels, wedges, and for mending the stilt of the bell.

d. Part of a type-founder's ‘lining-stick’ or lining-gauge: see quot. 1688.

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society > communication > printing > type founding > type-founding equipment > [noun] > gauge > parts of lining-gauge

plain1676

stilt1683

1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 155 The Stilt is a thin flat piece of Brass-Plate about a Scaboard thick, and a Double-Pica broad.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xxi. 262/2 A Letter Founders Lining Stick;..whose seueralls are as followeth... The Stilt, a slender ledge set vnder the side, to tilt vp the fore edge, that letters lying on it may rest against the bottom ledge.

†e. A support for a cask. Obsolete.

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the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > [noun] > cask stand

stall1538

gantry1574

stillage1596

stilling1604

scantling1632

stella1658

settle1695

stilt1701

still-yard1725

stalder1736

stillion1803

stallage1838

1701 London Gaz. No. 3721/3 Several Hogsheads of Claret being ready placed on Stilts,..the Claret was set running.

f. Pottery. A small piece of baked ware placed between pieces of biscuit ware to prevent their adhering to each other in the kiln.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > pottery manufacturing equipment > [noun] > for supporting during firing

plancha1544

parting shard1686

bat1825

stilt1825

spur1833

setter1853

slug1880

thimble1901

1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 473 Pieces of clay..called stilts, cockspurs,..&c. are put to keep them apart.

1880 C. A. Janvier Pract. Keramics 70 The pieces are supported and held apart by little fireclay instruments or props, which from their shape derive such names as pins or thimbles, watches, cock-spurs, triangles or stilts.

5. Any bird of the widely-distributed genus Himantopus, characterized by very long slender legs and slender sharp bills, and inhabiting marshes; a long-legged plover. Cf. tilt n.² 9.[Perhaps short for stilt-plover n. at Compounds 2 or stilt-bird (see Compounds 2), or imitated from German stelze short for bachstelze brook-‘stilt’, an alteration of the Old High German name waȥȥerstelza water-‘stilt’.]

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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > [noun] > family Recurvirostridae > genus Himantopus (stilt)

Himantopus1753

long-legged plover1766

stilt-plover1779

Longshanks1804

stilt1831

tilt1831

stilt-bird1835

stilt-shank1852

1831 J. Rennie Montagu's Ornithol. Dict. (ed. 2) 496 Stilt, (Himantopus Melanopterus, Meyer)... Longlegs. Longshanks.

1838 J. J. Audubon Ornithol. Biogr. IV. 247 Black-necked Stilt, Himantopus nigricollis.

1861 H. B. Tristram Great Sahara iv. 62 The beautiful black-winged stilt, the tamest of waders.

c1875 Cassell's Nat. Hist. IV. 167 The Stilts have a straight bill, but in other respects they are not unlike the Avocets.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

stilt-maker n.

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1625 in J. P. Shawcross Hist. Dagenham (1904) 253 Stilt-makers all, and tanners, shall complain of this disaster, For they will make each muddy lake for Essex Calves a pasture.

1898 Westm. Gaz. 27 Sept. 6/2 Stilt~makers disavow the intelligence that they are full of orders.

stilt-vaulting n.

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1861 H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed.) III. 151/1 Rope-dancing and stilt-vaulting.

stilt-legged adj.

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1864 H. W. Bates Naturalist on River Amazons (ed. 2) ix. 247 Flocks of stilt-legged water-fowl.

stilt-like adj.

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1889 Hardwicke's Sci.-gossip 25 189/2 The curious postures assumed by the animal [a species of rotifer] upon its long stilt-like toes.

C2.

stilt-bird n. (a) = sense 5; (b) any long-legged wading bird, a grallatorial bird.

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the world > animals > birds > defined by habitat > [noun] > aquatic or swimming bird > wading bird

wader1771

stilt-bird1835

stilter1845

stilt-walker1863

wading bird1868

the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > [noun] > family Recurvirostridae > genus Himantopus (stilt)

Himantopus1753

long-legged plover1766

stilt-plover1779

Longshanks1804

stilt1831

tilt1831

stilt-bird1835

stilt-shank1852

1835 R. Owen in Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 287/2 The Stilt~bird and other Waders.

1870 P. Gillmore tr. L. Figuier Reptiles & Birds 294 The Stilt Birds..obtain their name from the excessive length of their legs.

† stilt-bond n. Obsolete ? a band by which a stilt is fastened to the leg or foot.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > parts of footwear > [noun] > protective studs or plates > fastenings > lace, thong, or strap > types of

stilt-bond?a1500

sandal1829

toe-string1882

toe-strap1884

T-bar1889

bootstrap1891

T-strap1963

toe loop1964

?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 775/14 Hoc subligar, a styltbonde.

stilt-bug n. U.S. any one of the long-legged plant-lice of the family Berytidæ.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Homoptera > family Aphis

cantharidesa1398

blackfly1652

greenflya1680

green louse1682

green bug1704

collier1742

puceron1744

plant louse1763

aphis1771

leaf louse1774

smother-fly1785

tree-louse1797

ant cow1875

aphid1884

stilt-bug1895

1895 J. H. Comstock & A. B. Comstock Man. Study Insects 143 Family Berytidæ. The Stilt-bugs.

stilt heel n. (a shoe with) a high heel.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > parts of footwear > [noun] > heel > types of

heelc1400

cork1609

Polonia heel1613

high heel1645

French heel1651

spur box1862

rubber heel1867

boot-heel1870

Louis Quinze1875

Louis heel1906

Cuban heel1908

brogue heel1927

spike heel1929

stiletto heel1931

wedge-heel1939

stiletto1953

wedge1959

stacked heel1960

stilt heel1973

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > shoe > [noun] > types of > with specific heels > high heels

high shoe1606

heels1667

court shoe1885

spike heel1929

stiletto heel1931

wedge-heel1939

wedge shoe1939

wedge sole1939

wedgie1940

court1959

wedge1959

pump1967

stilt heel1973

Manolo Blahnik1988

1973 R. Rendell Some lie & Some Die vi. 49 She was..dressed..in..full, longish skirt, stilt heels.

stilt-heeled adj. (of shoes) high-heeled.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > [adjective] > with heel > with specific type of heel

corked1519

high-heeled1618

high heel1677

red-heeled1709

low-heel1712

stilt-heeled1772

court1903

wedge-heeled1939

Cuban-heeled1940

spike-heeled1953

stiletto-heeled1959

1772 T. Nugent tr. J. F. de Isla Hist. Friar Gerund II. 437 On Stilt-heel'd shoes Mounted she Struts.

1948 ‘P. Wentworth’ Traveller Returns xi. 64 The sheer black stockings, and the stilt-heeled shoes.

1980 ‘L. Egan’ Motive in Shadow iii. 39 She was wearing..stilt-heeled black patent leather pumps.

stilt-man n. a man who walks on stilts.

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society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > [noun] > one going on foot > one walking on stilts

stilt-man1552

stilter1845

stilt-walker1863

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Stylt man or goer on a stilte, grallator.

1586 in Acts Privy Council (1897) XIV. 75 Providing..of xij or xvj Scatchemen or Stiltmen in the countie of Lincolne, to be chosen of the best able and most experte men.

1890 E. H. Barker Wayfaring in France 37 The stiltmen observed this little comedy with quiet wonder.

stilt-petrel n. a petrel of the genus Fregetta, having long legs (also stilt stormy petrel).

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the world > animals > birds > order Procellariiformes > [noun] > member of family Hydrobatidae > procellaria pelagica (stormy petrel)

devil's bird1634

sea-swallow1647

storm-finch1661

assilag1698

storm-bird1752

devil bird1759

Mother Carey's chicken1767

storm finch1768

witch1770

alamootiea1777

stormy petrel1776

water witch1794

spency1813

storm-petrel1833

stilt stormy petrel1884

Tom Tailor1885

1884 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds (ed. 2) 782 Fregetta, Stilt Stormy Petrels.

stilt-plover n. = sense 5.

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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > [noun] > family Recurvirostridae > genus Himantopus (stilt)

Himantopus1753

long-legged plover1766

stilt-plover1779

Longshanks1804

stilt1831

tilt1831

stilt-bird1835

stilt-shank1852

1779 G. White Let. 7 May in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 259 These birds are of the plover family, and might with propriety be called the stilt plovers.

c1875 Cassell's Nat. Hist. IV. 167 The Stilts, or Stilt plovers (Himantopinæ).

stilt prolegs n. Entomology the prolegs of a caterpillar when unusually long, so as to raise the body.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Lepidoptera or butterflies and moths > [noun] > larva > parts of > pro-leg(s)

stilt prolegs1826

prop-leg1854

prop-foot1862

1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. IV. 354 Stilt Prolegs.

stilt-root n. an aerial root, arising from the trunk or lower branches of a tree, and acting to provide support.

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the world > plants > part of plant > root > [noun] > prop- or stilt-root

prop root1866

stilt-root1894

1894 F. W. Oliver et al. tr. A. Kerner von Marilaun Nat. Hist. Plants I. 756 Trees whose erect trunks are supported by tabular roots and those which are provided with stilt-roots may at the same time develop columnar roots from their branches.

1930 Discovery Nov. 381/1 No account of jungle vegetation..is complete without some mention of the trees with the curious stilt roots and those with the even stranger buttress roots.

stilt-rooted adj.

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the world > plants > part of plant > root > plant defined by roots > [adjective] > having or not having roots > of particular type or number

long-rooted1562

taprooted1725

polyrhizous1858

radicellose1881

polyrhizal1890

stem-rooting1896

stilt-rooted1974

1974 H. MacInnes Climb to Lost World xii. 221 I pointed..at a stilt-rooted tree which had grown up with stilts at least fifteen feet clear of the ground... Young stilt roots were growing into the swamp from its base.

stilt sandpiper n. a long-legged North American species of sandpiper, Micropalama himantopus.

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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > unspecified and miscellaneous types of

humility1634

simplicity1634

surfbird1839

spathe-bill1840

tilt-up1848

stilt sandpiper1872

1872 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 253 Micropalama, Stilt Sandpiper.

stilt-shank n. = sense 5.

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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > [noun] > family Recurvirostridae > genus Himantopus (stilt)

Himantopus1753

long-legged plover1766

stilt-plover1779

Longshanks1804

stilt1831

tilt1831

stilt-bird1835

stilt-shank1852

1852 W. Macgillivray Hist. Brit. Birds IV. 310 Himantopus. Stilt-shank.

stilt-walker n. (a) a person who walks on stilts (also transferred); (b) = stilt-bird n. (b).

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the world > animals > birds > defined by habitat > [noun] > aquatic or swimming bird > wading bird

wader1771

stilt-bird1835

stilter1845

stilt-walker1863

wading bird1868

society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > [noun] > one going on foot > one walking on stilts

stilt-man1552

stilter1845

stilt-walker1863

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > acrobatic performance > [noun] > acrobat > others

feat-worker1617

hoop-mana1668

trampolinist1843

somersaulter1850

stilt-walker1863

escapologist1926

1863 A. J. Munby Diary 20 May in D. Hudson Munby (1972) 162 I saw..two young female acrobats or stiltwalkers..forlorn and pitiable in their satin shoes & spangles.

1869–73 T. R. Jones tr. A. E. Brehm Cassell's Bk. Birds IV. 1 The Stilt-walkers (Grallatores).

1889 F. H. Herrick in Amer. Naturalist Nov. 943 A growth of tropical bush, in which we notice the mangrove, the stilt-walker of the tropical swamp.

1891 Daily News 3 Apr. 5/6 Sylvain Dornon, the stilt-walker, who is on a tour for a wager from Paris to Moscow.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	stilt
释义	stiltn. Brit. /stɪlt/, U.S. /stɪlt/ Forms: Also Middle English–1500s stilte, Middle English–1500s stylt(e. Etymology: Middle English stilte, cognate with (Middle) Low German, Middle Dutch stelte (modern Low German stelte, stilte, Dutch stelt), Old High German stelza (Middle High German, modern German stelze), Swedish stylta, Danish stylte; also Low German stelter, Norwegian styltra. The relation between the forms is somewhat obscure; they apparently point to three Germanic ablaut-types steltjōn- , staltjōn- , stultjōn- . The Germanic root stelt- ( < pre-Germanic steld- ) conjectured to mean ‘to walk stiffly’, seems to be represented also in Middle High German stolzen* to limp, Swedish stulta to totter, stagger, and perhaps (if the word be native Germanic) in Old Frisian stult , Low German stolt , High German stolz stately, proud (see stout adj.). 1. The handle of a plough. Occasionally also with reference to other farm implements. dialect. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > ploughing equipment > [noun] > plough > plough-tail or stilt startOE stiltc1340 plough-start1440 tail1466 plough handle?c1475 steer-tree1483 plough stilt?1523 plough-tail?1523 stilking?1523 steer1552 hale?1570 stive1693 plough-tree1799 by-tail1879 c1340 Nominale (Skeat) 854 Manuel et tenoun Handle and stilte. ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. ii The plough stylt is on the right syde of the plough, whervpon the rest [is set] the rest is a lyttell pease of wode pynned fast vpon the nether ende and to the sharbeam in y^e forther ende. 1581 in J. Anderson Cal. Laing Charters (1899) 256 [The sheriff-depute] deliverit the plewch stilt in the said Davidis handis vpone the arabill grownd thairof. 1652 W. Blith Eng. Improver Improved xxviii. 189 For the Plough-handles, some call them Stilts, and some Hales, and some Staves. 1798 C. Cruttwell Univ. Gazetteer (1808) at Pomona The plough..is of singular construction, having only one stilt. 1829 W. Scott Rob Roy (new ed.) I. Introd. p. lxxxviii He..shot MacLaren when between the stilts of his plough. 1840 Penny Cycl. XVIII. 272/1 The stilts or handles, of which there may be one or two, direct the plough. 1880 A. J. Munby Dorothy 35 Driving her furrows so straight..Guiding the stilts with a grasp skilful and strong as a man's. 1957 E. E. Evans Irish Folk Ways x. 129 The Irish were amazed when they first saw a ploughman with a Scots plough both driving the horses and holding the stilts. 1971 Country Life 20 May 1203/1 I take the ‘stilts’ of the big grass cutter and struggle behind it. 1973 Country Life 22 Feb. 474/1 My going to the plough that morning wasn't the first occasion upon which I had set my hands to the stilts. 2. a. A crutch. Obsolete exc. dialect.In quot. 1520² applied to a crutch-headed walking-stick as figured on a brass. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > surgical supports > [noun] > crutch crutchc900 crosec1330 stiltc1330 potent1348 croche14.. staff1483 staff1483 potencea1500 crutchet1611 plyer1699 c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 2956 On astilt he com þo Ful swiþe. c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn l. 2380 A Crepill he saw comyng..Oppon a stilt vndir his kne. 1520 Lyfe Ioseph of Armathia (Pynson) sig. B.i Verely she was heled and lefte her styltes thore And on her fete wente home resonably well. 1520 Brass in Ingoldmells Church Pray for the sowle of Wylliam Palmer wyth the stylt. c1590 C. Marlowe Jew of Malta ii. 977 (Brooke) I haue laugh'd agood to see the cripples Goe limping home to Christendome on stilts. 1658 W. Johnson tr. F. Würtz Surgeons Guid ii. xxvi. 170 This party carried it [a recovered limb] as well as any did with a stilt. 1697 in M'Kerlie's Hist. Lands Galloway (1870) I. 245 You..did..beatt her almost to death with the stilt wherewith she walked. a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Stilts, crutches. †b. gen. A prop, support. In quot. 1633 figurative. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > support > [noun] > that which supports > prop stipera1000 prop1440 shorec1440 lega1475 stut1559 spurn1620 stilt1633 Dutchman1859 1633 A. Johnston Diary (1911) I. 34 God as it wer..up~halding the by three stilts of fayth love and hope. 3. a. Each of a pair of props, usually slender wooden poles with a foot-rest some distance above the lower end, for enabling a person to walk with the feet raised from the ground, as over a marshy place, a stream, etc., the upper end being held by the hand or under the arm, or (in a modified form) strapped to the legs, or formerly sometimes fastened beneath the feet. (The ordinary current sense.) Phrase, to walk on (formerly †in) stilts. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > other means of conveyance > [noun] > stilts stiltc1440 scatch1542 Tom Walker1899 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 475/2 Stylte, calepodium, lignipodium. c1460 Burlesque in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 86 Dore-bundys stalkyng one stylttus. 1519 W. Horman Vulgaria xxxii. f. 279 Let vs daunce patende or with styltis. 1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. V4^v To consume my bodie as slender as a stilt or a broome-staffe. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 491 Fen-men..who stalking on high upon stilts, apply their mindes, to grasing, fishing, and fowling. 1715 J. Addison Spectator No. 559. ¶6 One of these looked like a Man walking upon Stilts. 1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond I. i. 25 The actors in the old tragedies,..speaking from under a mask, and wearing stilts and a great head-dress. 1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola I. viii. 137 Those mysterious giants were really men..balancing themselves on stilts. b. transferred. Applied to long slender legs, or other natural supports (quot. 1665), of an animal, esp. a bird (cf. sense 5). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > parts of or bird defined by > [noun] > legs stilt1598 the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [noun] > limb > fore limb or leg > long or slender stilt1598 1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. 50 b Those which we saye to be hipped and legged, or have a payere of goode and stedfast stiltes vnder them. 1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 26 This fish..wanting fins; in place whereof she is aided with two paps, which are not only suckles, but serve for stilts to creep a shoar upon. 1709 T. Robinson Vindic. Mosaick Syst. 66 in Ess. Nat. Hist. Westmorland & Cumberland Herns..walking by the Sides of shallow Rivulets upon long Stilts. 1835 R. Owen in Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 272/1 Birds that seek their food in water..wade into rivers and marshes on elevated stilts, as in the Crane, &c. c. figurative or in figurative expressions, usually with allusion to the artificially raised position or long strides of a person walking on stilts: cf. stilted adj. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [noun] affectation1548 affection1570 phantastry1656 stilt1735 fal-lal1775 coxcombality1785 meemaw1790 posture-making1797 attitudinarianism1803 attitudinizing1812 piminy1819 stiltishness1824 niminy-piminyism1840 gyvera1866 notion1866 attitudinization1871 effectism1871 jam1882 chichi1908 poncing1969 pseudery1972 the world > space > relative position > high position > [noun] > quality of being raised or elevated > raised or elevated position stilt1735 1735 tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. V. 80 His muse seemed rather to walk in stilts, than in the buskins of his own invention. 1752 H. Fielding Amelia II. v. i. 97 Booth offered to explain, but to no Purpose; the Colonel was got into his Stilts. 1781 H. Walpole Let. to W. Mason 14 Apr. Hurlothrumbo talked plain English in comparison of this wight on stilts [Dr. Johnson]. 1818 W. Hazlitt Lect. Eng. Poets i. 20 When artists or connoisseurs talk on stilts about the poetry of painting. 1826 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. (ed. 2) I. ii. 26 [Ld. Brooke] Ambition is but Avarice on stilts and masked. 1861 C. Benson in Macmillan's Mag. Feb. 275 The whole audience raised itself on the stilts of expectation. 1883 H. Caine Cobwebs Crit. vii. 199 Lifting himself into notoriety on the stilts of blasphemy. 4. In various technical senses. a. Each of a set of posts or piles on which a building (esp. of primitive construction) is raised from the ground, or which are fixed under water to support the pier of a bridge, etc. (In quot. 1697 transferred; cf. sense 3b.) ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > specific parts built or constructed > [noun] > foundation(s) > pile(s) pilelOE piling1422 spile1513 piloti1674 stilt1697 drift1721 bearing pile?1761 sheet-piling1789 sheeting-pile1837 screw pile1840 sheet-pile1841 sheath-piling1902 1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World iii. 54 Neither the black nor white Mangrove grow towering up from stilts or rising roots, as the red doth; but the body immediately out of the ground, like other Trees. 1712 E. Cooke Voy. S. Sea 315 The Houses are built with split Bamboes,..standing on Stilts, or Posts. 1739 C. Labelye Short Acct. Piers Westm. Bridge 42 Which method is commonly called building upon stilts. 1772 C. Hutton Princ. Bridges 100 Stilts, a set of piles driven into the space intended for the pier, whose tops being sawed level off about low-water mark, the pier is then raised on them. 1860 Burn's Gloss. Techn. Terms 4 Stilts, piles driven into a river at small intervals, and a surrounding row of piles driven closely together, and the interstices filled with stones, to form a foundation for a pier to be built upon. 1883 I. L. Bird Golden Chersonese 217 Below there is a village, with clusters of Chinese houses on the ground, and Malay houses on stilts, standing singly. b. Architecture. A vertical course of masonry placed beneath and continuous with an arch or vault so as to raise the springing of it above the general level, or for a similar purpose beneath or above a column. Cf. stilt v. 1b, stilted adj. 1b (b). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > other elements > [noun] > stilt stilt1835 stilting1835 1835 R. Willis Remarks Archit. Middle Ages vii. 77 The latter [i.e. clerestory or longitudinal arches] are raised upon stilts,..so as to throw their imposts considerably above those of the transverse arches. 1842 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 5 80/1 The continuous stilt or too lofty stylobate of the College of Surgeons. 1908 L. Milman Sir Christopher Wren 206 Corinthian pilasters, which, by a two-fold stilt above their capitals, reach to the great cornice. †c. Some appendage to a bell. (Perhaps = stay n.² 2h.) Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > percussion instrument > bell > [noun] > other parts yokeOE stirrup1341 cod1379 bell-string1464 frame1474 stock1474 ear1484 poop1507 bell-wheel1529 skirt1555 guarder1583 imp1595 tab1607 jennet1615 pluck1637 bell-rope1638 cagea1640 cannon1668 stilt1672 canon1688 crown1688 sound-bow1688 belfry1753 furniture1756 sounding bow1756 earlet1833 brima1849 busk-board1851 headstock1851 sally hole1851 slider1871 mushroom head1872 sally beam1872 pit1874 tolling-lever1874 sally-pin1879 sally-pulley1901 sally-wheel1901 1672 in W. O. Blunt 1000 Years Church in Chester-le-Street (1884) 98 For cotterels, wedges, and for mending the stilt of the bell. d. Part of a type-founder's ‘lining-stick’ or lining-gauge: see quot. 1688. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > type founding > type-founding equipment > [noun] > gauge > parts of lining-gauge plain1676 stilt1683 1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 155 The Stilt is a thin flat piece of Brass-Plate about a Scaboard thick, and a Double-Pica broad. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xxi. 262/2 A Letter Founders Lining Stick;..whose seueralls are as followeth... The Stilt, a slender ledge set vnder the side, to tilt vp the fore edge, that letters lying on it may rest against the bottom ledge. †e. A support for a cask. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > [noun] > cask stand stall1538 gantry1574 stillage1596 stilling1604 scantling1632 stella1658 settle1695 stilt1701 still-yard1725 stalder1736 stillion1803 stallage1838 1701 London Gaz. No. 3721/3 Several Hogsheads of Claret being ready placed on Stilts,..the Claret was set running. f. Pottery. A small piece of baked ware placed between pieces of biscuit ware to prevent their adhering to each other in the kiln. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > pottery manufacturing equipment > [noun] > for supporting during firing plancha1544 parting shard1686 bat1825 stilt1825 spur1833 setter1853 slug1880 thimble1901 1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 473 Pieces of clay..called stilts, cockspurs,..&c. are put to keep them apart. 1880 C. A. Janvier Pract. Keramics 70 The pieces are supported and held apart by little fireclay instruments or props, which from their shape derive such names as pins or thimbles, watches, cock-spurs, triangles or stilts. 5. Any bird of the widely-distributed genus Himantopus, characterized by very long slender legs and slender sharp bills, and inhabiting marshes; a long-legged plover. Cf. tilt n.² 9.[Perhaps short for stilt-plover n. at Compounds 2 or stilt-bird (see Compounds 2), or imitated from German stelze short for bachstelze brook-‘stilt’, an alteration of the Old High German name waȥȥerstelza water-‘stilt’.] ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > [noun] > family Recurvirostridae > genus Himantopus (stilt) Himantopus1753 long-legged plover1766 stilt-plover1779 Longshanks1804 stilt1831 tilt1831 stilt-bird1835 stilt-shank1852 1831 J. Rennie Montagu's Ornithol. Dict. (ed. 2) 496 Stilt, (Himantopus Melanopterus, Meyer)... Longlegs. Longshanks. 1838 J. J. Audubon Ornithol. Biogr. IV. 247 Black-necked Stilt, Himantopus nigricollis. 1861 H. B. Tristram Great Sahara iv. 62 The beautiful black-winged stilt, the tamest of waders. c1875 Cassell's Nat. Hist. IV. 167 The Stilts have a straight bill, but in other respects they are not unlike the Avocets. Compounds C1. General attributive. a. stilt-maker n. ΚΠ 1625 in J. P. Shawcross Hist. Dagenham (1904) 253 Stilt-makers all, and tanners, shall complain of this disaster, For they will make each muddy lake for Essex Calves a pasture. 1898 Westm. Gaz. 27 Sept. 6/2 Stilt~makers disavow the intelligence that they are full of orders. stilt-vaulting n. ΚΠ 1861 H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed.) III. 151/1 Rope-dancing and stilt-vaulting. b. stilt-legged adj. ΚΠ 1864 H. W. Bates Naturalist on River Amazons (ed. 2) ix. 247 Flocks of stilt-legged water-fowl. stilt-like adj. ΚΠ 1889 Hardwicke's Sci.-gossip 25 189/2 The curious postures assumed by the animal [a species of rotifer] upon its long stilt-like toes. C2. stilt-bird n. (a) = sense 5; (b) any long-legged wading bird, a grallatorial bird. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > defined by habitat > [noun] > aquatic or swimming bird > wading bird wader1771 stilt-bird1835 stilter1845 stilt-walker1863 wading bird1868 the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > [noun] > family Recurvirostridae > genus Himantopus (stilt) Himantopus1753 long-legged plover1766 stilt-plover1779 Longshanks1804 stilt1831 tilt1831 stilt-bird1835 stilt-shank1852 1835 R. Owen in Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 287/2 The Stilt~bird and other Waders. 1870 P. Gillmore tr. L. Figuier Reptiles & Birds 294 The Stilt Birds..obtain their name from the excessive length of their legs. † stilt-bond n. Obsolete ? a band by which a stilt is fastened to the leg or foot. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > parts of footwear > [noun] > protective studs or plates > fastenings > lace, thong, or strap > types of stilt-bond?a1500 sandal1829 toe-string1882 toe-strap1884 T-bar1889 bootstrap1891 T-strap1963 toe loop1964 ?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 775/14 Hoc subligar, a styltbonde. stilt-bug n. U.S. any one of the long-legged plant-lice of the family Berytidæ. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Homoptera > family Aphis cantharidesa1398 blackfly1652 greenflya1680 green louse1682 green bug1704 collier1742 puceron1744 plant louse1763 aphis1771 leaf louse1774 smother-fly1785 tree-louse1797 ant cow1875 aphid1884 stilt-bug1895 1895 J. H. Comstock & A. B. Comstock Man. Study Insects 143 Family Berytidæ. The Stilt-bugs. stilt heel n. (a shoe with) a high heel. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > parts of footwear > [noun] > heel > types of heelc1400 cork1609 Polonia heel1613 high heel1645 French heel1651 spur box1862 rubber heel1867 boot-heel1870 Louis Quinze1875 Louis heel1906 Cuban heel1908 brogue heel1927 spike heel1929 stiletto heel1931 wedge-heel1939 stiletto1953 wedge1959 stacked heel1960 stilt heel1973 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > shoe > [noun] > types of > with specific heels > high heels high shoe1606 heels1667 court shoe1885 spike heel1929 stiletto heel1931 wedge-heel1939 wedge shoe1939 wedge sole1939 wedgie1940 court1959 wedge1959 pump1967 stilt heel1973 Manolo Blahnik1988 1973 R. Rendell Some lie & Some Die vi. 49 She was..dressed..in..full, longish skirt, stilt heels. stilt-heeled adj. (of shoes) high-heeled. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > [adjective] > with heel > with specific type of heel corked1519 high-heeled1618 high heel1677 red-heeled1709 low-heel1712 stilt-heeled1772 court1903 wedge-heeled1939 Cuban-heeled1940 spike-heeled1953 stiletto-heeled1959 1772 T. Nugent tr. J. F. de Isla Hist. Friar Gerund II. 437 On Stilt-heel'd shoes Mounted she Struts. 1948 ‘P. Wentworth’ Traveller Returns xi. 64 The sheer black stockings, and the stilt-heeled shoes. 1980 ‘L. Egan’ Motive in Shadow iii. 39 She was wearing..stilt-heeled black patent leather pumps. stilt-man n. a man who walks on stilts. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > [noun] > one going on foot > one walking on stilts stilt-man1552 stilter1845 stilt-walker1863 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Stylt man or goer on a stilte, grallator. 1586 in Acts Privy Council (1897) XIV. 75 Providing..of xij or xvj Scatchemen or Stiltmen in the countie of Lincolne, to be chosen of the best able and most experte men. 1890 E. H. Barker Wayfaring in France 37 The stiltmen observed this little comedy with quiet wonder. stilt-petrel n. a petrel of the genus Fregetta, having long legs (also stilt stormy petrel). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Procellariiformes > [noun] > member of family Hydrobatidae > procellaria pelagica (stormy petrel) devil's bird1634 sea-swallow1647 storm-finch1661 assilag1698 storm-bird1752 devil bird1759 Mother Carey's chicken1767 storm finch1768 witch1770 alamootiea1777 stormy petrel1776 water witch1794 spency1813 storm-petrel1833 stilt stormy petrel1884 Tom Tailor1885 1884 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds (ed. 2) 782 Fregetta, Stilt Stormy Petrels. stilt-plover n. = sense 5. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > [noun] > family Recurvirostridae > genus Himantopus (stilt) Himantopus1753 long-legged plover1766 stilt-plover1779 Longshanks1804 stilt1831 tilt1831 stilt-bird1835 stilt-shank1852 1779 G. White Let. 7 May in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 259 These birds are of the plover family, and might with propriety be called the stilt plovers. c1875 Cassell's Nat. Hist. IV. 167 The Stilts, or Stilt plovers (Himantopinæ). stilt prolegs n. Entomology the prolegs of a caterpillar when unusually long, so as to raise the body. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Lepidoptera or butterflies and moths > [noun] > larva > parts of > pro-leg(s) stilt prolegs1826 prop-leg1854 prop-foot1862 1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. IV. 354 Stilt Prolegs. stilt-root n. an aerial root, arising from the trunk or lower branches of a tree, and acting to provide support. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > root > [noun] > prop- or stilt-root prop root1866 stilt-root1894 1894 F. W. Oliver et al. tr. A. Kerner von Marilaun Nat. Hist. Plants I. 756 Trees whose erect trunks are supported by tabular roots and those which are provided with stilt-roots may at the same time develop columnar roots from their branches. 1930 Discovery Nov. 381/1 No account of jungle vegetation..is complete without some mention of the trees with the curious stilt roots and those with the even stranger buttress roots. stilt-rooted adj. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > root > plant defined by roots > [adjective] > having or not having roots > of particular type or number long-rooted1562 taprooted1725 polyrhizous1858 radicellose1881 polyrhizal1890 stem-rooting1896 stilt-rooted1974 1974 H. MacInnes Climb to Lost World xii. 221 I pointed..at a stilt-rooted tree which had grown up with stilts at least fifteen feet clear of the ground... Young stilt roots were growing into the swamp from its base. stilt sandpiper n. a long-legged North American species of sandpiper, Micropalama himantopus. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > unspecified and miscellaneous types of humility1634 simplicity1634 surfbird1839 spathe-bill1840 tilt-up1848 stilt sandpiper1872 1872 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 253 Micropalama, Stilt Sandpiper. stilt-shank n. = sense 5. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > [noun] > family Recurvirostridae > genus Himantopus (stilt) Himantopus1753 long-legged plover1766 stilt-plover1779 Longshanks1804 stilt1831 tilt1831 stilt-bird1835 stilt-shank1852 1852 W. Macgillivray Hist. Brit. Birds IV. 310 Himantopus. Stilt-shank. stilt-walker n. (a) a person who walks on stilts (also transferred); (b) = stilt-bird n. (b). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > defined by habitat > [noun] > aquatic or swimming bird > wading bird wader1771 stilt-bird1835 stilter1845 stilt-walker1863 wading bird1868 society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > [noun] > one going on foot > one walking on stilts stilt-man1552 stilter1845 stilt-walker1863 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > acrobatic performance > [noun] > acrobat > others feat-worker1617 hoop-mana1668 trampolinist1843 somersaulter1850 stilt-walker1863 escapologist1926 1863 A. J. Munby Diary 20 May in D. Hudson Munby (1972) 162 I saw..two young female acrobats or stiltwalkers..forlorn and pitiable in their satin shoes & spangles. 1869–73 T. R. Jones tr. A. E. Brehm Cassell's Bk. Birds IV. 1 The Stilt-walkers (Grallatores). 1889 F. H. Herrick in Amer. Naturalist Nov. 943 A growth of tropical bush, in which we notice the mangrove, the stilt-walker of the tropical swamp. 1891 Daily News 3 Apr. 5/6 Sylvain Dornon, the stilt-walker, who is on a tour for a wager from Paris to Moscow. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online June 2022). stiltv. Brit. /stɪlt/, U.S. /stɪlt/ Etymology: < stilt n. 1. a. transitive. To raise as on stilts; to elevate artificially (literal or figurative). ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > raising > make to go up or cause to rise [verb (transitive)] > raise heave971 hevenOE onheaveOE rearOE highOE arearc1175 to set above (also aloft, high, on high)c1275 upbraidc1275 to set upc1290 lifta1300 upheavea1300 upraisea1300 upreara1300 enhancec1300 araise1303 hance1303 uplifta1340 lift1362 raisec1384 upbear1390 uphancec1390 advancea1393 haut?a1400 to put upa1400 verec1400 hainc1440 inhigh1483 elevate1497 uphigh1513 alifta1522 height1530 heighten1530 exalt1535 extol1549 sublevate1559 rouse?1567 attol1578 elate1578 vaunce1582 dight1590 higher1592 tower1596 to fetch up1612 relevate1620 screwa1625 transcend1635 stilt1649 allevate1696 stiltify1860 1649 Bp. J. Hall Humble Motion to Parl. 26 Some..by the foresaid means stilt themselves into some profession. 1802 A. Seward Lett. (1811) VI. 29 Southey told a friend of mine..that it was the finest poetic work which had appeared these fifty years. So Johnson stilted up Blackmore. 1825 W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1826) I. 516 The sole [is] adapted by the workman's skill to stilt the female foot. 1849 J. D. Dana U.S. Exploring Exped.: Geol. (1850) ii. 55 The atoll usually seems to stand as if stilted up in a fathomless sea. 1882 Pop. Sci. Monthly Jan. 389 In low water the boats often run aground on the sand-bars, and have to be stilted over them with timbers. 1884 Ld. Tennyson Becket ii. ii. 102 That would stilt up York to twice himself. b. Architecture. To raise (an arch, vault, or other structure) above the ordinary level by a ‘stilt’ or course of masonry beneath (see stilt n. 4b). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > other elements > [verb (transitive)] > raise with stilts stilt1835 1835 R. Willis Remarks Archit. Middle Ages vii. 76 The problem of vaulting an unequally sided rectangle..had early presented itself to the Romans, who..were led to the discovery..of stilting the arches. 1845 F. A. Paley Gothic Mouldings 66 Decorated bases are often stilted, or raised above the floor,..by graduated stages or tables. a1878 G. G. Scott Lect. Mediæval Archit. (1879) II. 163 The Roman builders solved the problem..by what is called stilting the narrower arch; that is, raising its springing till its crown becomes level with that of the wider arch. c. Bookbinding. To bind (a book) in projecting covers so as to make it uniform with a volume of a larger size. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > type of binding > types of binding [verb (transitive)] stilt1824 greenback1828 antique1896 1824 T. F. Dibdin Libr. Compan. 597 The third volume is often stilted, to make it dress with its companions. 1895 Bookseller's Catalogue In one vol., royal octavo (stilted to folio). 2. To fit (a plough) with a ‘stilt’. dialect. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > ploughing equipment > [verb (transitive)] > fit plough with stilt stilta1883 a1883 F. Harper in D. H. Edwards Mod. Sc. Poets 6th Ser. 345 Twice forty years..Has passed awa' sin' ‘Airchie Scott’ First fixed thy ribs..An' stiltit thee, an' turned thee oot A noble ploo! 3. intransitive. To walk on stilts; figurative (of a horse) ? to lift the legs high in walking or running, to prance. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > habits and actions of horse > [verb (intransitive)] > leap or prance tripc1386 prancea1398 brank?1400 leapc1405 gambol?1507 curvet1584 jet1587 jaunt1605 scope1607 stilt1786 caracol1813 prank1842 cavort1843–4 tittup1862 society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > go on foot [verb (intransitive)] > walk on stilts stilt1861 1786 R. Burns Poems 149 My spavet Pegasus will limp, Till ance he's fairly het; And then he'll hilch, and stilt, and jump, An rin an unco fit. 1861 W. W. Webb in Med. Times 29 June 680/1 Our young Blondins do stilt over the artificial Niagaras we construct for them. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1330v.1649
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