Major one of two genera of stilts; similar to avocets but with straight bills.
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Examples for "stilt "
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.
1 The Himantopus , remarkable from the wonderful length of its legs, is VERY variable in the length of its legs.
2 The kind of plover, which appears as if mounted on stilts ( Himantopus nigricollis), is here common in flocks of considerable size.
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