The Stilt Birds obtain their name from the excessive length of their legs, which are also so slender and flexible that they can be bent considerably without breaking.
In fact only two varieties are usually found in it—the Avocet and the Stilt Bird.
Stilt Birds are uncommon in Western Europe; they are principally to be met with in the Russian and Hungarian marshes.
In the "Gadabout" stilt you will notice that the stilt above the foot rest is strapped to the leg, just below the knee, which leaves both hands free.
Any boy with tools, timber and leather for straps can make "Gadabouts," and the arm stilt is still simpler.
Frank afterwards said to Jimmy,-- "That stilt dodge of yours is a capital idea.
Type B stilt (Plate 41) is made shorter than Type A and is to be strapped to the leg just above the knee.
In this style of stilt (Type A, Plate 41) the uprights are held beneath the arm pits.
Perhaps she had not time to stay her hand, for it was but a moment and the stilt had passed off the bridge.
To-day the sight of a stilt walker is a curiosity almost as great at Bordeaux as at Paris.
Up to recent years scarcely any merry-makings occurred in the villages of Gascony that were not accompanied with stilt races.
The stiltwalkers of Landes not only attain a great speed, but are capable of traveling long distances without appreciable fatigue.
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When, in 1808, the Empress Josephine went to Bayonne to rejoin Napoleon I, who resided there by reason of the affairs of Spain, the municipality sent an escort of young Landese stilt walkers to meet her.
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The speed that the stilt walkers attain is easily explained.
Sylvain Dornon, the stilt walker of Landes, started from Paris on the 12th of last March for Moscow, and reached the end of his journey at the end of a fifty-eight days' walk.
The stilt breeds as far north as eastern Oregon, but is little seen north of southern California in the winter.
In firing, the pottery is sometimes placed on a stilt but this is not absolutely necessary.
A stilt or support upon which to set the wet glazed pottery, and a bowl of water in which to wash the fingers so as to save all the glaze.
William Rowan has sent me the following notes: Identification marks of the stilt are excellent and it is quite an easy bird to spot in almost any circumstances.
Adult stilt sandpipers, before they have entirely lost the barred under parts, can be recognized by these marks and by other characters described under that species.
Mr. Nichols tells me that: On Long Island the stilt sandpiper is usually uncommon, occurring in small numbers often closely associated with lesser yellow-legs or dowitcher.
Moore watched a stilt sandpiper feeding in Florida and says in his notes: It alighted within 20 feet of me and commenced feeding at once, in water that nearly covered the tarsi.
In the great mud flats of the Marisma of the River Guadalquiver in South Spain, too, there is little in the way of cover, but the nests are never so exposed as those of the stilt or avocet.
My first glimpse of a black-necked stilt was a complete surprise, and my first nest was in an unexpected situation.
From the stilt it can be distinguished by its much stockier build, the absence of black on head and neck and by blue instead of pink legs.
When stilt prolegs unite so as to form only one leg bifid at its apex.
The stilt (Himantopus candidus) may be described as a sandpiper on red stilts.
It is slightly bigger than the stilt but with shorter legs.
It must be matter of great curiosity to see the stilt plover move; to observe how it can wield such a length of lever with such feeble muscles as the thighs seem to be furnished with.
These birds are of the plover family, and might with propriety be called the stilt plovers.
The Banded Stilt is a purely Australian bird, and has no representative in other countries.
Robin and the two Johns were to stilt themselves home, while she was taken so long and rugged a way, that at every jolt she was ready to renew her thanks for sparing it to her son's shoulder; and they were at home before her.
Men cannot stand still upon stilts, because there are no muscles at the foot of the stilt to play upon the ground and react upon the body.
A very slight movement of thestilt is sufficient to keep it under their centre of gravity.
The food of the Black-necked Stilt consists of insects, minute shell fish and larvae, and various small forms of life.
The pointed arch is used, and the Ravenna stilt is absent; but the capitals, with their animal volutes, are almost the same as some of those of Euphrasius.
The Ravenna stilt and the Byzantine double capital were both of them shifts to relieve, as it were, the light abacus of the Corinthian capital from the weight which the arch laid upon it.
They are wrought to bear the greater immediate weight which the arch brings upon the capital, and they avoid such shifts as the Ravenna stilt and the Byzantine double capital.
All bear Corinthian capitals of different varieties, and all carry the Ravenna stilt in a rude form without the cross.
Now, as every stilt walker knows, it is impossible to stay motionless on stilts.
Julia had already shown off about all of her stilt accomplishments, so she thought and thought to devise something new whereby to arouse Beth's admiration afresh.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stilt" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: corpse; magpie; shadow; skeleton; slim; twiggy
