0 one of a set of long pieces of wood or metal used to support a building so that it is above the ground or above water: --
Part rises from the riverbed on stilts and part is cantilevered off the railway retaining wall.
He introduces himself and then leaves his desk, while walking on stilts to look bigger.
The inhabitants of marshy or flooded areas sometimes use stilts for practical purposes, such as working in swamps or fording swollen rivers.
The stilts have extremely long legs and long, thin, straight bills.
In his opening words he referred to people who were "mighty in their fallacies"and in his closing words he said that it was"all nonsense on stilts".
They can be separated, because it is possible to build the road on stilts, costing £4 million or £6 million less than if it is built on a barrage.
We shall have to build on stilts.
We have reached a situation of constitutional nonsense on stilts.
