Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who walks on stilts.
- noun A grallatorial bird; a stilt-bird.
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Examples
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So this stilt-walker gets a little kid to join in his show, and the little kid dances off with the show.
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An amazing, inspiring and amusing man of 53 who had begun performing as a teenage accordianist, fire-eater and stilt-walker in a Quebec park in 1983, joined with some twenty acrobatic friends to create a unique assemblage of street artists who first came to Los Angeles next year for a show, not even knowing if they had the fare to return home.
Jay Weston: Cirque du Soleil's Ovo Drove Me Buggy... In a Nice Way Jay Weston 2012
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Burton first glimpses him late at night, in an alley filled with a billowing white vapor: The steam parted and from it sprang a bizarre apparition: a massively long-legged shape -- like a carnival stilt-walker -- a long, dark cloak flapping from its hunched shoulders, bolts of lightning crackling around its body and head ....
"The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack," steampunk by Mark Hodder Michael Dirda 2010
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So this stilt-walker gets a little kid to join in his show, and the little kid dances off with the show.
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He's a passionate young man, a master of Brazilian martial arts, a stilt-walker, a full-time student at Cleveland State University and, like Selker, a restaurant cook.
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He's a passionate young man, a master of Brazilian martial arts, a stilt-walker, a full-time student at Cleveland State University and, like Selker, a restaurant cook.
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Founded in Quebec, Canada, by stilt-walker and fire-breather Guy Laliberte, Cirque du Soleil has grown into one of the world's truly great entertainment companies.
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Laliberte, an experienced fire-eater and stilt-walker who founded Cirque du Soleil, joined Russian cosmonaut Maxim Surayev and American astronaut Jeffrey Williams aboard a Soyuz craft that soared off the Kazakh steppe and set a course for the International Space Station.
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Laliberte, an experienced fire-eater and stilt-walker who founded Cirque du Soleil, joined Russian cosmonaut Maxim Surayev and American astronaut Jeffrey Williams aboard a Soyuz craft that soared off the Kazakh steppe and set a course for the International Space Station.
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As a dozen dancers take their marks, two clowns toting a tattered suitcase and an oversize egg run amok, dodging a stilt-walker and a pair of roller skaters.
An Act of Daring 2008
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