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Applied to various kinds of foot-rest analogous to the stirrup. Shoemaking. (See quot. 1886 at sense 1a.)
(a) the strap used by a shoemaker to keep a boot in position on his knee; (b) U.S. ‘in a railroad-car, a wrought-iron facing to a knee-timber…