The word "stilt" is correct and usable in written English.
It is a noun that refers to a support or upright pole, especially the kind someone stands on while doing street performance or circus tricks. Example sentence: The stilt walker amazed the crowd with her amazing balancing acts.
Stilt bug (family Berytidae), any of about 100 species of delicate, slender-bodied, slow moving, long-legged insects in the true bug order, Heteroptera.
All of the stilt bug species are plant feeders.
Laliberté left Canada at age 18 to hitchhike across Europe, where he earned money playing his accordion and met street performers who taught him the arts of fire eating and stilt walking.
The city comprises a mixture of modern and traditional architecture; such structures as glass-and-concrete skyscrapers, elegant mosques, Chinese shop-houses (family-operated shops with the business on the ground floor and the family's living space upstairs), squatters' huts, and Malay stilt kampungs ("villages") betray Western, Middle Eastern, East Asian, and local influences.
Examples range from houses dug into the ground to retain heat in the colder parts of the Highlands to stilt dwellings built over the sea in sheltered coastal areas, which help to keep out mosquitoes and simplify sanitation.
For example, mangroves can have feeder roots for absorption, stilt roots for support, and pneumatophores for aeration.
It is hard to imagine being greeted at the door by stilt-wearing actors dressed as Buddhist monks and giraffes at a conference on particle physics, or even malaria.
THE best-maintained building in the remote village of Teluk Binjai in Riau province on Sumatra is neither the new, rather Spartan, wooden mosque nor one of the better-off local farmers' stilt-raised bungalows.
Throughout, a whimsical array of enormous puppets, stilt-walkers, aerialists and fanciful costumes adds to the sense of pageantry.
The walls were filled with placards, from the predictable (references to Gandhi, Nkrumah and other radical heroes), to the creative (one poster announced stilt-training sessions), to the bizarre ("Let's overthrow the King", a poster denouncing Elvis Presley as a symbol of America's ills).
They live onboard their multihued vintas (sailboats) and take temporary shelter in stilt-raised homes during storms.
