stilt

English

A girl on stilts (walking poles).

A stilt (bird)

Etymology

From Middle English stilte, stulte, from Old English *stilte, *stylte, from Proto-Germanic *stiltijǭ, *staltijǭ, *stultijǭ (“stilt”), from Proto-Germanic *stelt- (“to be stiff”). Akin to Danish stylte, Dutch stelt, German Stelze.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stɪlt/
• Rhymes: -ɪlt

Noun

stilt (plural stilts)

1. Either of two poles with footrests that allow someone to stand or walk above the ground; used mostly by entertainers.
2. A tall pillar or post used to support some structure; often above water.
3. Any of various wading birds of the genera Himantopus and Cladorhynchus, related to the avocet, that have extremely long legs and long thin bills.
4. A crutch.
5. The handle of a plough.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

Derived terms

• black-necked stilt (Himantopus mexicanus)
• stilt plover ()
• stilt sandpiper (Calidris himantopus)

Translations

walking pole

• Bulgarian: кокили (bg) (kokili)
• Catalan: xanca (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 高蹺／高跷 (zh) (gāoqiāo), 高跷 (zh) (gāoqiào)

• Czech: chůdy m pl
• Danish: stylte
• Dutch: stelt (nl) f
• Estonian: kark
• Finnish: puujalka (fi)
• French: échasse (fr) f
• Galician: zanco m
• German: Stelze (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient: κωλόβαθρον n (kōlóbathron)

• Hungarian: gólyaláb (hu)
• Icelandic: stulta (is) f
• Irish: cos croise f
• Italian: trampolo (it) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 竹馬 (たけうま, takeuma)
• Korean: 죽마 (ko) (jungma)
• Latin: grallae f pl
• Maori: poukoki, poutoti
• Norwegian: stylte
• Polish: szczudło n
• Portuguese: perna-de-pau f
• Romanian: piciorong (ro) n
• Russian: ходу́ля (ru) f (xodúlja)
• Serbo-Croatian: ходуља f (hodulja), гигаља f (gigalja), штула f (štula)
• Spanish: zanco m
• Swedish: stylta (sv)
• Tagalog: kikik
• Vietnamese: cà kheo (vi)

pillar

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Dutch: stelt (nl) f
• Finnish: paalu (fi), tolppa (fi)
• French: pilotis (fr) m
• German: Stelze (de) f
• Irish: cos taca f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: trampolo (it) m, palo (it) m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: stylte m

  Nynorsk: stylte f

• Russian: сва́я (ru) f (svája)
• Spanish: pilote (es) m

bird

• Czech: pisila
• Dhivehi: ތޭރަވާ އިލޮޅި (tēravā iloḷi)
• Dutch: steltloper (nl) m
• Finnish: pitkäjalka (fi)
• French: échassier (fr) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: Stelzenläufer (de) m
• Italian: cavaliere d'Italia m
• Russian: кули́к (ru) m (kulík), ходу́лочник (ru) (xodúločnik)
• Spanish: cigüeñuela f

crutch — see crutch

handle of a plough

• Armenian: մաճ (hy) (mač)
• French: mancheron (fr) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Galician: rabela f
• Portuguese: esteva (pt) f

Verb

stilt (third-person singular simple present stilts, present participle stilting, simple past and past participle stilted)

1. to raise on stilts, or as if on stilts

Further reading

• stilt on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Litts, tilts

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Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• stillet (Etymology 3)

Verb

stilt

1. past participle of stille

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

stilt

1. past participle of stilla

Adjective

stilt

1. neuter singular of still