stilt

stilt is a 5-letter English word with 8 senses as noun and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A pole, or piece of wood, constructed with a step or loop to raise the foot above the ground in walking. It is sometimes lashed to the leg, and sometimes prolonged upward so as to be steadied by the hand or arm. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 6 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A pole, or piece of wood, constructed with a step or loop to raise the foot above the ground in walking. It is sometimes lashed to the leg, and sometimes prolonged upward so as to be steadied by the hand or arm.
2. noun. A crutch; also, the handle of a plow.
3. noun. Any species of limicoline birds belonging to Himantopus and allied genera, in which the legs are remarkably long and slender. Called also longshanks, stiltbird, stilt plover, and lawyer.
4. transitive verb. To raise on stilts, or as if on stilts.
5. noun. long-legged three-toed black-and-white wading bird of inland ponds and marshes or brackish lagoons

   Synonyms: longlegs, stiltbird

6. noun. long-legged three-toed wading bird of brackish marshes of Australia
7. noun. a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure

   Synonyms: pile, piling, spile

8. noun. one of two stout poles with foot rests in the middle; used for walking high above the ground

   "he was so tall I thought he was on stilts"

Synonyms

longlegs, stiltbird, pile, piling, spile

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in stilt:

tilts

Common word forms

stilts, stilted, stilter, stilting

Words from these letters

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