Stilt.
1. (Hydraulic Engineering.) One of a set of piles forming the back for the sheet-piling of a starling.
2. (Pottery.) A little, pointed piece of pottery, used to place between pieces of biscuit ware in the saggar to prevent the adherence of the pieces.
3. (Husbandry.) A term sometimes applied to the handles of a plow; the word “handles” being confined to the upper end of the stilts, where they are grasped by the hands. The term “stilts,” in this sense, is regarded by Webster as an English provincialism. They are usually termed handles in this country. 4. A stave with a foot support; a pair of them being used to raise a person above the ground in walking. In England and the United States stilts are but a sport or exercise, but in the Landes, a flat pasture-country of Southwestern France, the shepherds use them habitually.
