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STILT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Long-legged three-toed black-and-white wading bird of inland ponds and marshes or brackish lagoons
Synonyms:
Himantopus stilt; long-legs; longlegs; stilt; stilt plover; stiltbird
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("stilt" is a kind of...):
limicoline bird; shore bird; shorebird (any of numerous wading birds that frequent mostly seashores and estuaries)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "stilt"):
black-necked stilt; Himantopus mexicanus (stilt of southwestern United States to northern South America having black plumage extending from the head down the back of the neck)
black-winged stilt; Himantopus himantopus (stilt of Europe and Africa and Asia having mostly white plumage but with black wings)
Himantopus himantopus leucocephalus; white-headed stilt (stilt of the southwest Pacific including Australia and New Zealand having mostly white plumage but with black wings and nape of neck)
Himantopus novae-zelandiae; kaki (blackish stilt of New Zealand sometimes considered a color phase of the white-headed stilt)
Holonyms ("stilt" is a member of...):
genus Himantopus; Himantopus (major one of two genera of stilts; similar to avocets but with straight bills)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Long-legged three-toed wading bird of brackish marshes of Australia
Synonyms:
Australian stilt; stilt
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("stilt" is a kind of...):
limicoline bird; shore bird; shorebird (any of numerous wading birds that frequent mostly seashores and estuaries)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "stilt"):
banded stilt; Cladorhyncus leucocephalum (web-footed Australian stilt with reddish-brown pectoral markings)
Holonyms ("stilt" is a member of...):
Cladorhyncus; genus Cladorhyncus (one of two genera of stilts; similar to avocets but with straight bills)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("stilt" is a kind of...):
column; pillar ((architecture) a tall vertical cylindrical structure standing upright and used to support a structure)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "stilt"):
sheath pile; sheet pile; sheet piling (a pile in a row of piles driven side by side to retain earth or prevent seepage)
Sense 4
Meaning:
One of two stout poles with foot rests in the middle; used for walking high above the ground
Example:
he was so tall I thought he was on stilts
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("stilt" is a kind of...):
pole (a long (usually round) rod of wood or metal or plastic)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb stilt
