stilt
/stɪlt/noun
1
- either of a pair of upright poles with supports for the feet enabling the user to walk at a distance above the ground高跷。
1.1
- each of a set of posts or piles supporting a building（建筑的）支撑物, 支柱。
1.2
- a small, flat, three-pointed support for ceramic ware in a kiln（在窑里支撑陶瓷制品的小型扁平三点）承坯架。
2
- a long-billed wading bird with predominantly black and white plumage and very long slender reddish legs长腿鹬。
2.1
- Family Recurvirostridae: two genera, in particular Himantopus, and several species.反嘴鹬科：2属, 尤指长腿鹬属, 数种。
短语
on stilts
1
- supported by stilts踩着高跷。
2
- (of language) bombastic or stilted（语言）夸张做作的（地）, 不自然的（地）：
he is talking nonsense on stilts, and he knows it.
他正在夸张地胡说八道, 这一点他自己很清楚。
词源
Middle English: of Germanic origin; related to Dutch stelt and German Stelze. Sense 2 dates from the late 18th cent.