stilt

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noun

1. a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure (Freq. 1)
• Syn:
pile, spile, piling
• Hypernyms:
column, pillar
• Hyponyms:
sheet pile, sheath pile, sheet piling
2. 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
• Hypernyms:
pole
3. long-legged three-toed black-and-white wading bird of inland ponds and marshes or brackish lagoons
• Syn:
stiltbird, longlegs, long-legs, stilt plover, Himantopus stilt
• Hypernyms:
shorebird, shore bird, limicoline bird
• Hyponyms:
black-necked stilt, Himantopus mexicanus, black-winged stilt, Himantopus himantopus, white-headed stilt,
Himantopus himantopus leucocephalus, kaki, Himantopus novae-zelandiae
• Member Holonyms:
Himantopus, genus Himantopus
4. long-legged three-toed wading bird of brackish marshes of Australia
• Syn:
Australian stilt
• Hypernyms:
shorebird, shore bird, limicoline bird
• Hyponyms:
banded stilt, Cladorhyncus leucocephalum
• Member Holonyms:
Cladorhyncus, genus Cladorhyncus

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  stiltbird, longlegs, long-legs, stilt plover, Himantopus stilt, Australian stilt, pile, spile, piling