either of two poles each with a rest or strap for the foot, that enable the user to walk along above the ground
any of a set of piles, posts, etc that support a building above ground or water level
a support for a ceramic vessel being fixed in a kiln
(pl stilts or stilt) any of several long-legged wading birds with three toes and mainly black and white plumage: genera Cladorhynchus and Himantopus
[Middle English stilte, of Germanic origin]