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stilt

[stilt] / stɪlt /
















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It’s shifted over the years — there were stilt walkers for a bit, and Sawdust’s historical site notes there was once a mascot in “Jelf,” part jester, part elf.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2025

Encircling the footprint of each roundhouse were "middens," haloes of rubbish dumped from the stilt village above, included broken pots, butchered animal bone, and "coprolites" or fossilised faeces.

From Science Daily • Mar. 20, 2024

Drummers, stilt walkers, trumpet players and other performers, all dressed up and lacquered in glitter, attract thousands of followers.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 12, 2024

I mean, literally physically starving a lot of the time, and he learned to be a carnival barker, a stilt walker.

From Salon • Dec. 19, 2023

Mrs. Cripe didn’t ring up a stilt after the farm women left, so they may have come in just for the toothpicks.

From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck