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Stilts
- noun - a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure
- long-legged three-toed black-and-white wading bird of inland ponds and marshes or brackish lagoons
- long-legged three-toed wading bird of brackish marshes of Australia
- one of two stout poles with foot rests in the middle; used for walking high above the ground; "he was so tall I thought he was on stilts"
Stings
- noun - a kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung; "the sting of death"; "he felt the stinging of nettles"
- a mental pain or distress; "a pang of conscience"
- a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin
- a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
- cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort; "The sun burned his face"
- cause a stinging pain; "The needle pricked his skin"
- cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging; "His remark stung her"
- deliver a sting to; "A bee stung my arm yesterday"
- Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner, musician, born 2 October 1951.
- saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous; "They stuck me with the dinner bill"; "I was stung with a huge tax bill"
Stinks
- noun - a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant
- be extremely bad in quality or in one's performance; "This term paper stinks!"
- smell badly and offensively; "The building reeks of smoke"
Stints
- noun - an individual's prescribed share of work; "her stint as a lifeguard exhausted her"
- an unbroken period of time during which you do something; "there were stretches of boredom"; "he did a stretch in the federal penitentiary"
- smallest American sandpiper
- subsist on a meager allowance; "scratch and scrimp"
- supply sparingly and with restricted quantities; "sting with the allowance"
Stipes
- noun - supporting stalk or stem-like structure especially of a pistil or fern frond or supporting a mushroom cap
Stirks
- noun - yearling heifer or bullock
Stoats
- noun - the ermine in its brown summer coat with black-tipped tail
Stocks
- noun - a certificate documenting the shareholder's ownership in the corporation; "the value of his stocks doubled during the past year"
- A device, usually made of wood, for holding miscreants by legs (and sometimes wrists) as a public punishment. "Put him in the stocks".
- a former instrument of punishment consisting of a heavy timber frame with holes in which the feet (and sometimes the hands) of an offender could be locked
- a frame for constraining an animal while it is receiving veterinary attention or while being shod
- a frame that supports a boat while it is under construction
- a plant or stem onto which a graft is made; especially a plant grown specifically to provide the root part of grafted plants
- a special variety of domesticated animals within a species;
- a supply of something available for future use; "he brought back a large store of Cuban cigars"
- amass so as to keep for future use or sale or for a particular oc