[f. STILT sb. or v. + -ING1.]
1. The action or sport of walking on stilts.
1809. Sporting Mag., XXXIII. 316. Stilting may possibly become as fashionable in these, as tilting formerly was in better times.
1906. J. Paterson, Wamphray, vi. 165. It was not uncommon for an expert at stilting to carry a passenger across the water.
2. Arch. The placing of a ‘stilt’ (STILT sb. 4 b) beneath an arch, etc., so as to raise it; concr. = STILT sb. 4 b.
1835. R. Willis, Archit. Mid. Ages, vii. 74. Both the larger and smaller vaults are raised above the entablature by stilting.
1869. Tozer, Highl. Turkey, II. 77. The stilting above one of the pillars … is wholly out of the perpendicular.
