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:
Next to that there is the old grammar school, which is almost unique and on stilts.
However, the road could be built on stilts.
The motorway was constructed a few years later on stilts.
The building will, therefore, be built on stilts so that the whole of the ground floor will be a covered yard.
A lot of this is built on stilts of very thin paper.
The market would be on stilts over the railway lines.
As a means of social justice, attacking poverty and helping low-income families with children, this scheme is nonsense on stilts.
We have reached a situation of constitutional nonsense on stilts.
