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stilt

noun as in leg

noun as in pole

verb as in elevate

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Dorris in turn threatened to raise it on stilts and move the flags to 100-foot flagpoles—a plan that turned out to be unnecessary because the state refused to add vegetation.

The cheery blue puffs suspended atop ladderlike stilts suggested heaven was attainable.

A Y Combinator alum, Stilt was founded five years ago by Rohit Mittal and Priyank Singh.

With the utmost caution he came over the high sedges on his stilt-like legs to the brink of the creek and posed.

These birds are of the plover family, and might with propriety be called the stilt plovers.

The stilt breeds as far north as eastern Oregon, but is little seen north of southern California in the winter.

You notice that, unlike those stilt-walkers, the herons, the flamingoes have webbed feet.

But he said he would do his best to run out the remainder on a stilt.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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