Definition of "stilting" []

• Present participle of stilt. (verb)

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• "There is the further expedient of "stilting" the cross arches, that is, making the real arch spring from a point above the impost and building the lower portion of it vertical, as shown in Fig. 98."
• "It's wonderful to work with someone whose changes and ideas for the art are obviously concerned with the success of the illustration itself and how it works in the book, and not simply one-sided fiddling and rearranging based on individual preference or a stilting focus on the exactness of how a scene was imagined originally."
• "Going forward, policy may become looser as China strives to avoid overly stilting growth, he said."