stilt

noun

• 1either of a pair of upright poles with supports for the feet enabling the user to walk at a distance above the ground.
• each of a set of posts or piles supporting a building above the ground.
• a small, flat, three-pointed support for ceramic ware in a kiln.

• 2a long-billed wading bird with predominantly black and white plumage and long slender reddish legs.

  • Family Recurvirostridae: two genera, in particular Himantopus, and several species