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means Long poles or supports that raise something above the ground — whether the wooden ones strapped to your feet for walking tall, or the posts that hold a building above water or marsh.
from The word surfaces in Middle English as 'stilte,' a pole or crutch, and has Germanic cousins all around — Low German 'stelte,' Dutch 'stelt,' Danish 'stylte.' The whole family seems to gather around an old sense of something stiff and upright (you can hear the kinship with 'stilted' speech, which stands rigid rather than flows). From a walking aid for the lame, the meaning strode upward into the legs of fenland houses and the playful poles of acrobats.
- ancient commute
- French shepherds crossed marshy moors on them for centuries
- world record
- tallest stilts walked on stand over 50 feet
- building hack
- houses on stilts dodge floods and hungry critters
- circus origin
- the word comes from a Low German term for crutch
- folk festival
- Belgium's Namur hosts annual stilt-jousting battles
venice's acqua alta flooding — venetians have used raised platforms and stilts for centuries due to regular tidal flooding in the lagoon city
dan rice's walking stilts — american circus performer dan rice popularized theatrical stilt-walking in the 1850s as entertainment spectacle