tom-walkers
n.pl.— «Tom-walkers. Stilts. “We been walking on Tom-walkers to-day.”» —by Harry Harrison Kroll A Comparitive Study of Upper and Lower Southern Folk Speech (George Peabody College for Teachers, Tenn.) Aug., 1925. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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