stirrup
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1. stirrup - Noun
2. stirrup - Adjective
3. stirrup - Verb
4. Stirrup - Proper noun
Meaning
A kind of ring, or bent piece of metal, wood, leather, or the like, horizontal in one part for receiving the foot of a rider, and attached by a strap to the saddle, -- used to assist a person in mounting a horse, and to enable him to sit steadily in riding, as well as to relieve him by supporting a part of the weight of the body.
Any piece resembling in shape the stirrup of a saddle, and used as a support, clamp, etc. See Bridle iron.
A rope secured to a yard, with a thimble in its lower end for supporting a footrope.
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Von Papen, pious agent of an infidel regime, held the stirrup while Hitler vaulted into the saddle, lubricated the Austrian annexation and devoted his diplomatic cunning to the service of Nazi objectives abroad.
When I was so fatigued that I couldn't move, the excitement of going to the barn and getting my foot in the stirrup would make me crawl out of bed.
If you speak the truth, keep a foot in the stirrup.
If you're going to tell the truth, you better have one foot in the stirrup.
He that speaks truth must have one foot in the stirrup.
He certainly made a poor figure on a horseback, with his stirrup leather six inches too short, putting his knees nearly level with his horse's back, and his heels turned out with his toes sticking behind his horse's foreshoulder.