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Meanings of stilt in anglès
català
himantopus espanyol
cigüeñela Long-legged three-toed black-and-white wading bird of inland ponds and marshes or brackish lagoons.
Sinònims
Examples for "pile"
Examples for "pile"
1
Britain currently pays about £40bn a year to finance its debt pile.
2
There'll be a pile of paper on my desk that needs attention.
3
The questions pile on top of one another: Do you believe him?
4
Now the pile of paper was not just burning; it was blazing.
5
One way is to have market participants pile on to the trend.
1
Doctor Keller has sent a final demand; the bills are piling up.
2
However, it may feel as though the responsibilities are still piling up.
3
Plastic is piling up aroudn the world and new solutions are needed.
4
Water reaching the river was piling higher, rising against already saturated levees.
5
Betty was piling wood in the living-room fireplace when he came in.
1
Spare the rod and spile the child, as the Good Book says.
2
What you lost at the spile, you would gain at the bung.
3
An' knowin' t' much might spile a boy for bein' a Secesher.
4
Then I think of the spile and wrest it from the tree trunk.
5
It's hard in the law to spile a man, I think.
espanyol
cigüeñela australiana Usage of stilt in anglès
1
They had come to an area of scrubby brush on stilt roots.
2
I stepped onto the dock and looked up at the stilt house.
3
And the red land-crabs, on their stilt-like legs, crept nearer and nearer.
4
Hundreds have lived in traditional wooden stilt homes by its banks for decades.
5
John Enderby reined up his horse and looked the stilt-walker in the face.
6
He spent at least one weekend a month alone at the stilt house.
7
Both caballine and stilt-legged lineages may each have comprised a single, wide-ranging species.
8
As he did so a stilt struck him on the head.
9
The Captain had reddish-brown, stilt hair, that he wore short upon his skull.
10
Nothing scares me worse than stilt-walkers in pink scales and feathers.
11
Straddling the valleys between them on long stilt-like gantries were giant industrial modules.
12
Marse looked away, toward Miami, then ahead at the stilt house, blue with evening.
13
She could have swum all night just to keep the stilt house in sight.
14
The speed that the stilt walkers attain is easily explained.
15
You'll pass a tobacco factory, a mosque and stilt houses.
16
We walked among the stilt-legged ruins of a fire tower.
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Stilt across language varieties
United States of America
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