stirrup
IPA: stˈɝʌp
noun
- (equestrianism) A ring or hoop suspended by a rope or strap from the saddle, for a horseman's foot while mounting or riding.
- (by extension) Any piece shaped like the stirrup of a saddle, used as a support, clamp, etc.
- (climbing) A portable, flexible ladder-like device used in climbing.
- (anatomy) A stapes.
- (nautical) A rope secured to a yard, with a thimble in its lower end for supporting a footrope.
- (construction) A bent rebar wrapped around the main rebars to reinforce against shear stress.
- A surname.
adjective
- Referring to women's pants/trousers: being of a form, commonly worn by women, that includes a strap beneath the arch of the foot.
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Examples of "stirrup" in Sentences
- The boundary was the Stirrup Brook.
- Get your left foot in that stirrup.
- Stirrup is married and has one son.
- Placement of the stirrup on the foot.
- It is a ceramic with a stirrup handle.
- Gunpowder and the stirrup to name but two.
- As was the section about the stirrup controversy.
- Differing schools advocate for the stirrup or horseshoe.
- Maybe merging in the info on stirrup length from the stirrup article.
- Terms that, in Latin, are translated as the hammer, the anvil, and the stirrup.
- “The invention of the stirrup was a vital one in the history of mounted warfare, Doctor,” Spock said.
- That was called the stirrup-horn; because after they drank it the men put their feet to the stirrups and sprang upon their horses and started.
- That was called the stirrup-horn, because after they drank it the men put their feet to the stirrups and sprang upon their horses and started.
- And this would he repeat, until he had drained what he called his stirrup cup, at every shop in the place where the poisonous liquor was vended.
- "Mr. Bearsley would never pardon me did I let you go without what he call a stirrup-cup to keep you from the ills that lurk in the wind of the Serra.
- It was a custom in olden days when a man was ready to journey, for one who loved him to bring a glass of wine which he drank in the saddle; and this was called the stirrup or parting cup.
- When he hath a mind to ride me, he binds on his feet a thing of iron called a stirrup and lays on my back another thing called a saddle, which he fastens by two girths, passed under my armpits.
- On the bottom when you look at this, here is this stirrup shaped bone here which we would call the stirrup next to a bone marked by an “I”, which is the anvil, and the bone next to it marked by an “M”, which is the malleus, or hammer.
- The stirrup is now considered of little use, except to support the left foot, and many of the best riding-masters make their pupils ride without one, and to put their arms behind them, while the master holds the longe and urges the horse to his speed.