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- Stirrup - v. i. - 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.
- Stirrup - v. i. - Any piece resembling in shape the stirrup of a saddle, and used as a support, clamp, etc. See Bridle iron.
- Stirrup - v. i. - A rope secured to a yard, with a thimble in its lower end for supporting a footrope.
- Stirrup - v. i. - Any piece resembling in shape the stirrup of a saddle, and used as a support, clamp, etc. See Bridle iron.
- Bridle iron - - A strong flat bar of iron, so bent as to support, as in a stirrup, one end of a floor timber, etc., where no sufficient bearing can be had; -- called also stirrup and hanger.
- Strap - n. - Something made of such a strip, or of a part of one, or a combination of two or more for a particular use; as, a boot strap, shawl strap, stirrup strap.
- Stapes - n. - The innermost of the ossicles of the ear; the stirrup, or stirrup bone; -- so called from its form. See Illust. of Ear.
- Footstall - n. - The stirrup of a woman's saddle.
- Rowlock - n. - A contrivance or arrangement serving as a fulcrum for an oar in rowing. It consists sometimes of a notch in the gunwale of a boat, sometimes of a pair of pins between which the oar rests on the edge of the gunwale, sometimes of a single pin passing through the oar, or of a metal fork or stirrup pivoted in the gunwale and suporting the oar.