| 单词 | to walk on stilts |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto walk on (formerly †in) stilts a. Each of a pair of props, usually slender wooden poles with a foot-rest some distance above the lower end, for enabling a person to walk with the feet raised from the ground, as over a marshy place, a stream, etc., the upper end being held by the hand or under the arm, or (in a modified form) strapped to the legs, or formerly sometimes fastened beneath the feet. (The ordinary current sense.) Phrase, to walk on (formerly †in) stilts. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > other means of conveyance > [noun] > stilts stiltc1440 scatch1542 Tom Walker1899 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 475/2 Stylte, calepodium, lignipodium. c1460 Burlesque in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 86 Dore-bundys stalkyng one stylttus. 1519 W. Horman Vulgaria xxxii. f. 279 Let vs daunce patende or with styltis. 1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. V4v To consume my bodie as slender as a stilt or a broome-staffe. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 491 Fen-men..who stalking on high upon stilts, apply their mindes, to grasing, fishing, and fowling. 1715 J. Addison Spectator No. 559. ¶6 One of these looked like a Man walking upon Stilts. 1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond I. i. 25 The actors in the old tragedies,..speaking from under a mask, and wearing stilts and a great head-dress. 1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola I. viii. 137 Those mysterious giants were really men..balancing themselves on stilts. < as lemmas |
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