stirrupn.
/ˈstɪrəp/, /ˈstɛrəp/, U.S. /ˈstɪrəp/ 1. † d. yeoman of the stirrup, groom of the stirrup: former officers in the Royal Household (Master of Horse's department). Obsolete.
a. A contrivance suspended from the side of a saddle to serve as a support for the foot of the rider; in modern times, an arched piece of metal (rarely of wood, leather, etc.) closed by a flat plate to receive the sole of the boot. to lose one's stirrups [= French perdre les étriers] : to let one's feet accidentally slip out of the stirrups (for the figurative use see 1c).
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > stirrup
stirrupc1000
steel bowc1275
iron1662
saddle iron1772
shovel-stirrup1883
oxbow stirrup1907
oxbow1942
c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 120/2 Scansile, stirap.
a1100 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 332/11 Scansile, stigrap.
c1175 Soul & Body in Fragm. Æ lfric's Gloss., etc. (1838) 6 On stirope stonden mid fotan.
c1290 Beket 248 in S. Eng. Leg. 113 His loreins weren al of seluer, stirapes and spores al-so.
c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 3261 His stirops [printed stiropo] he made him tine, To grounde he him wrong.
1338 R. Mannyng Chron. (1725) 190 He smote him in þe helm, bakward he bare his stroupe.
c1386 G. Chaucer Shipman's Prol. 1 Ovre Ost vppon his stiropes stood anoon And seide good men herkeneth euerychoon.
a1400–50 Wars Alex. 3615 He standis vp in his stereps in starand maylis.
1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur x. xlvi. 487 There with alle sire Palomydes lost his steroppes and lay vp ryght on his horsbak.
1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) iii. 143 Ye King in full gret hy Strak at ye toyir wigorusly Yat he efter his sterap drew.
a1500 (?c1450) Merlin x. 164 Ban..ficched hym in the styropes so harde that the Iren bente.
a1500 (?a1400) Sir Torrent of Portyngale (1887) l. 987 Torrent in the storrope stod And prayd to god, þat dyed on Rode.
1549 in Archaeologia 25 555 Pd..for the vernyshyng of a styrepe iiijd.
1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie i. viii. 8 [I saw] Moores mounted on..horses without saddel, bridle, stirrops or spurres.
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1646 (1955) II. 508 I was furnish'd with an Asse..but without stirrops, but we had ropes tied with a loope to put our feete in.
1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. ix. 377 Of Stirrups they also make these several sorts, the swivel, barr'd, Rippon, and plain stirrop.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Stirrops are allowed a modern Invention. Menage observes, that St. Jerom is the first Author who mentions them.
1820 W. Scott Monastery I. ix. 246 I am a rude man, bred to lance and stirrup, and not used to deal with book-learned men and priests.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. ii. vi. 69 Now no man on a level with his age but will trot à l'Anglaise, rising in the stirrups.
1845 R. Ford Hand-bk. Travellers in Spain I. i. 57 The stirrups are the primitive Moorish, copper or iron boxes of a triangular shape, in which almost the whole foot rests.
1886 H. Caine Son of Hagar i. i So when I put my feet into the stirrups, there they stuck.
b. to hold the stirrup: lit. in helping a person to mount, esp. as a manifestation of homage or reverence; hence figurative to be subservient.Sometimes with allusion to the rendering of this act of homage by certain emperors to the pope.
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society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > attendant or personal servant > attend as servant [verb (intransitive)] > hold the stirrup
to hold the stirrup1548
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VII f. lij When the kynge approched, the duke at his lightynge offred to holde his styrope.
1594 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 iv. i. 54 Hast not thou kist thy hand and held my stirrope?
1601 A. Dent Plaine Mans Path-way to Heauen 247 They do but hold the stirrop to their owne destruction.
1636 S. Rutherford Lett. (1863) I. 179 It becometh not Christ to hold any man's stirrup.
1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing 228 Opinions hold the stirrup, while vice mounts into the saddle.
1675 E. Wilson Spadacrene Dunelmensis 34 I hold the stirrop to Pyrotechnical Philosophy.
1764 C. Churchill Duellist iii. 33 Who was so mean..That he would..hold a stirrup for the Devil.
1908 J. Gairdner Lollardy I. 49 The fiery Frederic Barbarossa held the stirrup of Pope Alexander III.
c. In various figurative expressions.
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1601 W. Cornwallis Ess. II. xl. sig. Cc3 By Marius and Sylla, the Romaines state lost her sturrops; by Cæsar, and Pompey was cast out of the Saddle.
1643 W. Bridge Serm. Voluntiers Norwich 22 Make use of your experience as a stirrup to get up your spirits to the promise.
a1647 R. Boyle Wks. (1772) I. Life p. xiii It could not be unwelcome to be of a quality, that was a handsome stirrup to preferment.
1647 J. Trapp Comm. Epist. & Rev. (2 Pet. ii. 12) Some men..fall beneath the stirrop of reason.
1657 T. Burton Diary (1828) I. 412 The plaintiff will ride post with Festina, but Lentè, quoth the defendant, and puts the plaintiff's foot many times besides the stirrup by Essoins, Imparlances,..or the like.
1690 C. Ness Compl. Hist. & Myst. Old & New Test. I. 125 Rebels against God fall below the stirrup of sense.
1727 P. Walker Some Remarkable Passages Semple, Welwood & Cameron 142 He got a Dispensation from the Pope, to make a Stirrup of our Covenants to mount the Throne of Britain.
1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Mem. (1964) 277 A man who is in swell street, that is, having plenty of money, is said to be up in the stirrups.
1866 C. Dickens Mugby Junction iii, in All Year Round Extra Christmas No., 10 Dec. 18/2 Excitement was up in the stirrups. Expectation stood a tiptoe.
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society > authority > office > holder of office > official of royal or great household > [noun] > in charge of horses or stables
master of the horse1449
yeoman of the horse1455
yeoman of the stable1455
equerry1526
yeoman of the stirrup1526
stall-master1659
Crown Equerry1814
1526 Eltham Ordinances in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 203 The wages of the yeoman of the stirrop at 3d. per diem.
1526 Eltham Ordinances in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 204 Five Groomes of the Stirrop every of them at 2d. per day.
1538 T. Elyot Dict. Strator, he that helpeth his mayster to horsebacke, yeman of the styrope.
1547 in J. Gairdner & R. H. Brodie Lett. & Papers Reign Henry VIII (1910) (modernized text) XXI. ii. 401 Belle, groom of the stirrup.
1647 L. Haward Charges Crown Revenue 23 Yeoman of the Stirrup: Fee, per diem 9. d.
1692 London Gaz. No. 2809/3 The Yeoman of the Stirrup.
2. Applied to various kinds of foot-rest analogous to the stirrup.
a. In a crossbow, a rest in which the foot is placed in order to steady the bow while it is being bent.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > archer's weapons > [noun] > bow > crossbow > foot-rest
stirrup1371
1371–3 Accts. Exchequer King's Remembrancer 397/10 m. 3 ij vicz ad tendendum balistas. xviij. stirops pro balistis.
b. Shoemaking. (See quot. 1886 at sense 1a.)With quot. c1820 cf. stirrup v. 3.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > making footwear > [noun] > equipment or materials for > equipment > device for holding shoe or last steady
stirrupa1600
knee-strap1812
boot-clampa1877
a1600 T. Deloney Gentle Craft (1627) i. iv. sig. Civ The Stirrop holding fast while we sowe the Cow-hide.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Tire-pied, a Shoomakers stirrup.
1735 W. Pardon Dyche's New Gen. Eng. Dict. Stirrup,..an Instrument used by Shoemakers to put over their Knee and under their Foot to hold their Work tight upon their Knee.
c1820 J. Kitto in Eadie Life (1857) 32 S——..bids us, under pain of the stirrup, make a pair of shoes per diem.
1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Stirrup, a shoemaker's strap, with which he keeps the last firm upon his knee.
c. [= French étrier.] A kind of footless stocking having a strap which passes underneath the foot; also the strap itself; hence, a similar strap attached to women's stretch trousers or slacks. Originally U.S. in modern use.An alleged example c1530 Hyckescorner 799 is an error for stertups: see startup n. a kind of boot.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for legs > [noun] > footless stocking > strap of
stirrup1659
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for legs > [noun] > footless stocking
stirrup-stocking1611
scogger1615
stirrup-hose1659
hogger1666
stirrup1714
traheen1817
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for legs > clothing for legs and lower body > [noun] > trousers > parts of > leg > band passing under foot
trouser strap1829
strap1836
stirrup1963
1659 J. Howell Particular Vocab. §xxiii, in Lex. Tetraglotton (1660) The stirrop of the hose, l'estrier de la chaussette.
1685 in W. R. Scott Rec. Sc. Cloth Manufactory New Mills (1905) 87 Noe more silk or worset stockens be made with stirups.
1714 tr. French Bk. of Rates 123 And to these Stockings or Stirrups of Silk, which shall be hereafter imported, his Majesty ordains, that [etc.].
1746 Gentleman's Mag. 16 407 (Exmoor Vocab.) Stirrups, a kind of buskins.
1955 Sun (Baltimore) 7 Jan. (B ed.) 15/1 [Baseball] The stockings, modeled after those of the Boston Red Sox. The stirrup—that cutaway portion which extends down into the shoe—will be orange.
1963 Women's Wear Daily 23 Sept. 15/1 Rayon/nylon twill stretch pants…hi rise, back zip, no stirrups.
1967 Boston Sunday Herald 26 Mar. (Advt. section) Comfy elastic waist, neat stitched pleat, self-fabric stirrups.
1980 Times 19 Feb. 8/4 The major buyers have bought..denims, dungarees, stirrup trousers (they used to be called ski pants) in the now obligatory stretch fabrics.
d. Netting. A contrivance consisting of a footboard suspended by ribbons, serving to keep the work in place.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > netting > other equipment
netting-box1783
stirrup1844
1844 Mrs. H. Owen Ladies' Bk. Needlework (ed. 2) 2 A netting vice or stirrup.
1870 Mag. for Young 6 Her foot in a netting stirrup.
1882 S. F. A. Caulfeild & B. C. Saward Dict. Needlework 358/1 For ordinary Netting the plain Stirrup is the best, as the whole weight of the foot is upon it.
e. Surgery. An appliance used in operations for extension. Also, each of a pair of supports for holding the legs of a female patient raised and apart, as during childbirth.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > surgical supports > [noun] > appliances for stretching limbs to be set
strap1706
stirrup1884
traction splint1935
the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > obstetrical equipment > [noun]
birth stool1627
forceps1634
ungula1684
unguis1752
fillet1753
crotchet1754
lack1754
tire-tête1754
perforator1790
vectis1790
cranioclast1860
binder1861
stirrup1936
vacuum extractor1954
birthing stool1956
ventouse1960
1884 W. Pye Surg. Handicraft 187 The use of the stirrup and weight, introduced first for extension in hip disease, was soon applied to fractures.
1896 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. I. 426 If the nurse be desired to apply an extension in cases of hip-disease the ends of the stirrup must be well above the knee.
1936 H. J. Stander Williams' Obstetr. (ed. 7) xv. 406 In the hospital she is..placed on a suitable delivery table,..the legs held in position by adjustable stirrups.
1977 M. French Women's Room i. xviii. 69 The humiliation of being in stirrups and having people peer at her exposed genitals whenever they chose.
f. (See quot. 1585.)Apparently an isolated use.
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1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 169/2 Encentris,..an iron stirrup, or a shooe driuen full of iron nayles poynted, which they vse that goe vpon ice: an icespur.
g. Mining. (Cornwall.) A foot-rest attached to the rope by which men were let down and drawn up the shaft.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > mining equipment > [noun] > footrest on rope for lowering miners
stirrup1602
1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 11 The workmen are let down and taken vp in a Stirrup, by two men who wind the rope.
1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis 158 From the axis hangs a sort of an iron stirrup..by its two hooks.
h. A stirrup-like foot-rest for working a bellows.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > metalworking equipment > [noun] > forging equipment > bellows > parts of
tew-iron1399
rock-staff1561
basis1669
twire-pipe1674
rocker1678
tewel1678
wind-hole1688
wind-sucker1688
rostrum1706
muzzle1726
tuyere1781
stirrup1843
hinge1852
tue1883
1843 C. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. I. 436 The bellows are..worked by the foot,..by a chain from the rocking-shaft terminating in a stirrup.
i. (See quot. 1901.)
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1901 H. E. Bulwer Gloss. Techn. Terms Bells & Ringing 5 Stirrup, a separate loop of rope, or leather, attachable to the end of a rope for chiming with the foot.
3. Anatomy. = stapes n.
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the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > skull > parts of skull > [noun] > bones of ear > stapes
stirrup1615
stirrup-bone1646
stapes1671
1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 592 The first is called..Malleolus the Mallet or the Hammer. The second Incus the Anuill or the Stithy. The third Stapes the Stirrop.
1718 J. Chamberlayne tr. B. Nieuwentyt Relig. Philosopher I. xiii. 247 These Auditory Bones..are..four in Number,..the Hammer,..the Anvil,..the Stirrup; and between the Anvil and Stirrup there lies..a small roundish Bone.
1879 G. B. Prescott Speaking Telephone (new ed.) 5 A mechanical apparatus of wonderful delicacy..consisting of a series of bones termed respectively the hammer, anvil and stirrup.
4. Something shaped like a stirrup.† c. Some kind of appendage to a bell. Obsolete.
a. gen.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > types of curvature > [noun] > thing or part in other curved shapes
heart1446
scutule1592
figure (of) eight1607
parenthesis1608
scallop1609
curvilineal1636
stirrup1684
pelecoid1706
shield1849
pretzel1919
jug handle1955
1684 R. Waller tr. Ess. Nat. Exper. Acad. del Cimento 110 To observe by the Sound the like Dilatation in a Stirrup of Glass.
1874 Spons' Dict. Engin. VIII. 2938 Any part of a machine resembling in shape or in functions the stirrup of a saddle, is called the stirrup.
b. A U-shaped clamp or support.
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the world > space > relative position > support > [noun] > that which supports > support of specific shape
stirrupc1450
Y1793
wye1857
scissor legs1865
society > occupation and work > equipment > clutching or gripping equipment > [noun] > clamp > other clamps
dog1373
stirrupc1450
side hook1813
pinch-cock1862
steady1885
hold-down1888
V-block1901
c1450 in A. Macdonald & J. Dennistoun Misc. Maitland Club (1842) III. i. 205 Item thre stirrapis for the lampys.
1496–7 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 224 To the Smythe for iij Stays and a litill Sterope and a forth Riȝht dogge of Iryn for the Roode~lofte.
1507 in Rokewode's Suff. 150 (Promp. Parv. 202 (note) ) For goions and colars, with ij stireppis for my bruge, weiyng 36½ lb.
1531 Lett. & Papers Henry VIII V. 185 For a sterop for the drawe-bryge.
1536–7 in W. H. St. J. Hope Windsor Castle (1913) I. 265 A great storrap for to bear the gutter of the leades over the steres.
1844 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 7 149/2 A stirrup..supporting the table.
1850 E. B. Denison Rudimentary Treat. Clock & Watch Making i. lxi. 86 The old form of mercurial pendulum was that of a glass cylinder standing on a stirrup at the bottom of the rod.
1866 R. M. Ferguson Electricity 3 Let us suspend a magnet..by a stirrup of paper,..hanging from a cocoon thread.
1869 W. J. M. Rankine Cycl. Machine & Hand-tools Pl.P 11 The smaller end of the taper mandril is supported in a movable bearing in the balanced lever, the upper end of which is secured by the stirrup.
1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Stirrup, a band or strap which is bent around one object and is secured to another by its tangs or branches.
1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Stirrup (Carpentry), a. a device for holding a rafter-post or strut to a tie... b. an iron strap to support a beam.
1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining 241 Stirrups, a screw joint suspended from the brake-staff or spring-pole, by which the boring rods are adjusted to the depth of the borehole.
1884 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockmakers' Handbk. (new ed.) 189 The parts of the stirrup may with advantage be annealed after they are finished.
1894 S. R. Bottone Electr. Instr. Making (ed. 6) 22 The wire or fibre which supports the ‘stirrup’ in which is placed the magnetic needle or insulating rod.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > percussion instrument > bell > [noun] > other parts
yokeOE
stirrup1341
cod1379
bell-string1464
frame1474
stock1474
ear1484
poop1507
bell-wheel1529
skirt1555
guarder1583
imp1595
tab1607
jennet1615
pluck1637
bell-rope1638
cagea1640
cannon1668
stilt1672
canon1688
crown1688
sound-bow1688
belfry1753
furniture1756
sounding bow1756
earlet1833
brima1849
busk-board1851
headstock1851
sally hole1851
slider1871
mushroom head1872
sally beam1872
pit1874
tolling-lever1874
sally-pin1879
sally-pulley1901
sally-wheel1901
1341–2 in F. R. Chapman Sacrist Rolls Ely (1907) II. 118 In vj steropis et iiij bondes pro Baunse [sc. a bell so named] 10d.
1474 in T. North Bells Northamptonsh. (1878) 371 For makyng of a storop to the sayd bell, iijd.
c1520 in C. Welch Churchwardens' Accts. Allhallows, London Wall (1912) 56 Item for a sterope for the gret bell, ijd ob.
1683 in J. Barmby Churchwardens' Accts. Pittington (1888) 252 For one stirrup for the 2nd bell and altering another.
5. Nautical.
a. (See quot. 1867.)
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > rigging > [noun] > fixed rigging > permanent rigging of a yard > foot-rope > rope supporting
stirrup1495
1495 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 152 Boltes with rynges and Styroppes of dyuerse makynges.
1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 12 The boule spret, the pillow, the sturrop, the spret sayle.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine at Horse It [sc. the horse] is usually suspended thereto [i.e. to the yard], at proper distances, by certain ropes called stirrups, which hang about two feet under the yard, having an eye in their lower ends through which the horse passes.
1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple I. vi. 65 ‘Captain of the foretop,’ said he, ‘up on your horses, and take your stirrups up three inches.’—‘Aye, aye, sir.’ (I looked and looked, but I could see no horses.)
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Stirrups, ropes with eyes at their ends, through which the foot-ropes are rove, and by which they are supported.
b. (See quots.)
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > bottom or part under water > [noun] > keel and kelson > keel > plate to secure new piece on keel
stirrup-band1407
stirrup1627
1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. xi. 53 When a Ship hath lost a peece of her Keele..you must patch a new peece vnto it, and bind it with a stirrop, which is an iron comes round about it and the Keele.
1691 T. Hale Acct. New Inventions 49 New Stirrups put on to secure the false Keel.
1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 153 Stirrup, an iron or copper plate that turns upwards on each side of a ship's keel and dead~wood, at the fore-foot, or at her skeg, and bolts through all.
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society > society and the community > social class > symbol of rank > [noun] > specific insignia of knight
gilt (also gilded) spurs1377
false stirrupc1485
orle1834
c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Knychthede (1993) vi. 36 Quhen he has jmplyde his spere, his lang suerde his polax, his fals sterap.
c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Knychthede (1993) vi. 35 Jtem masse is gevin him..the quhilk masse is lyknyt till a fals sterap.
7. In reinforced concrete construction, each of the vertical or diagonal members which bind together the upper and lower reinforcement of a beam, etc.
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > specific parts built or constructed > [noun] > beams or supports
sillc897
sole-tree1527
spur1529
brace1530
rance1574
strut1587
ground pin1632
ground-plate1663
strut-beam1668
wale-piece1739
strutting-beam1753
wale1754
stretcher1774
tie1793
tie-beam1823
strutting1833
lattice frame1838
tie-bolt1838
tie rod1839
brace-rod1844
web1845
box girder1849
plate girder1849
lattice beam1850
lattice girder1852
girder1853
twister1875
under-girder1875
truss-beam1877
raker1880
wind-bracing1890
portal strut1894
stirrup1909
knee-brace1912
tee-beam1930
tee section1963
binder-
1909 Concrete & Constructional Engin. IV. 250 When vertical stirrups are used they take little stress until a diagonal crack has formed.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
a.
stirrup-buckle n.
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a1774 O. Goldsmith tr. P. Scarron Comic Romance (1775) I. xxv. 288 The tongue of the stirrup-buckle had torn his stockings.
stirrup-holder n.
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1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Stirope holder, or yoman of the stirope, strator.
1626 T. Hawkins tr. N. Caussin Holy Court I. 79 How many tymes he hath made himselfe a stirrop-holder, or foot boy.
b.
stirrup-shaped adj.
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1900 Engin. Mag. 19 755/1 Current is taken off the conductors by three stirrup-shaped wires.
c.
stirrup-fashion adv. (also †stirrup-fashion)
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1612 Mr. King tr. Benvenuto Passenger i. i. 15 Reach me my needleworke bootehose, or those of cloth made stirrop fashion.
stirrup-wise adv.
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1610 R. Vaughan Most Approved Water-workes R 3 b A Ring of ground..scituate stirrope wise.
C2. † stirrup-band n. Obsolete = sense 5b.† stirrup-hose n. Obsolete = sense 2c. † stirrupman n. Obsolete = yeoman of the stirrup at sense 1d.† stirrup-manship n. Obsolete † stirrup money n. Obsolete a fee or perquisite of a groom.† stirrup-way n. Obsolete a bridle-path.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > bottom or part under water > [noun] > keel and kelson > keel > plate to secure new piece on keel
stirrup-band1407
stirrup1627
1407 Accts. Exchequer King's Remembrancer 44/11 (1) m. 4 ij ligaturis ferri vocatis steropebandes.
stirrup-bar n. (a) each of the bars on a saddle-tree to which a stirrup-strap is attached; (b) the bar of a stirrup on which the foot rests.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > saddle > parts of saddle
saddle-boweOE
arsonc1300
saddle skirt1361
saddle-tree1364
skirtc1400
saddle panel1465
stock-tree1470
stock1497
pommela1500
tree1535
pillion cloth1540
port1548
saddle stock1548
pilch1552
bolster1591
cantle1591
shank-pilliona1599
pillowc1600
pad1604
crutch1607
sivet1607
saddle crutcha1614
saddle eaves1663
saddle tore1681
burr1688
head1688
narve1688
saddle seat1688
sidebar1688
torea1694
quarter1735
bands of a saddle1753
witherband1764
withers1764
peak1775
pillion-stick1784
boot-housing1792
saddle flap1798
saddle lap1803
fork1833
flap1849
horn1849
skirting1852
hunting-horn1854
head-plate1855
saddle horn1856
cantle bar1859
leaping-horn1859
straining1871
stirrup-bar1875
straining-leather1875
spring tree1877
leaping-head1881
officer-tree1894
monkey1911
monkey-strap1915
thigh roll1963
straining-web-
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > stirrup > parts of
stirrup-iron1474
port1548
toe1842
tapadero1844
stirrup-bar1875
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2012/2 Two stirrup-bars are added and iron staples for the valise.
1891 R. Kipling Light that Failed vi. 89 He has slipped his foot from the stirrup-bar.
stirrup-bone n. = sense 3.
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the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > skull > parts of skull > [noun] > bones of ear > stapes
stirrup1615
stirrup-bone1646
stapes1671
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica v. xiii. 253 Concerning the invention of the stapes or stirrop bone . View more context for this quotation
1884 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds (ed. 2) 185 The stapes, or ‘stirrup-bone.’
stirrup-dram n. = stirrup-cup n.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > [noun] > a drink of > before departure
bridling cast?1499
grace cupc1593
voiding beer1639
stirrup-cup1681
deoch an dorisc1700
stirrup-glass1775
stirrup-dram1815
binder1899
one for the road1939
1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering II. 18 Tib Mumps will be out wi' the stirrup-dram in a gliffing.
stirrup-fast adj. having the feet secure in the stirrups.Apparently an isolated use.
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1827 T. Carlyle tr. F. H. K. de La Motte Fouqué in German Romance I. 308 The latter..with difficulty kept his saddle, and scarcely continued stirrup-fast.
stirrup-foot n. (a) the left forefoot of a horse; (b) the left foot, the foot used first in mounting a horse.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > body or parts of horse > [noun] > foot or spec. foot
horse-foot1489
spear-foot1753
stirrup-foot1753
the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > extremities > foot > [noun] > right or left
stirrup-foot1753
spade-foot1891
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. The stirrup-foot is the near, or left foot before.
1823 J. G. Lockhart Escape of Gayferos in Anc. Spanish Ballads vi The stirrup-foot and the hilt-hand see that ye sunder both.
stirrup-glass n. = stirrup-cup n.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > [noun] > a drink of > before departure
bridling cast?1499
grace cupc1593
voiding beer1639
stirrup-cup1681
deoch an dorisc1700
stirrup-glass1775
stirrup-dram1815
binder1899
one for the road1939
1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Stirrupglass, the glass drank on horseback at parting.
1818 J. Haslewood in Brathwait's Barnabæ Itinerarium (new ed.) Introd. 18 Taking leave of his host at the Inn door..by having a stirrup glass.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for legs > [noun] > footless stocking
stirrup-stocking1611
scogger1615
stirrup-hose1659
hogger1666
stirrup1714
traheen1817
1659 J. Howell Particular Vocab. §xxiii, in Lex. Tetraglotton (1660) Stirrop-hose, chaussettes à estrier.
1664 Tarif Fr. King & Council (1713) 12 Two pair of stirrup Hose to pay as one.
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stirrup-ladder n. a thatcher's short ladder holding to the roof with spikes (Halliwell).
stirrup lantern n. (see quot.).
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the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > [noun] > lamp > lantern > types of
sconcec1392
Muscovy lantern1606
sconcer1731
talc light1808
stirrup lantern1824
mistress1848
bull's-eye1851
midgy1893
1824 Reg. Arts & Sci. 1 122 The Stirrup Lantern is a small square lantern, fixed at the bottom of a stirrup by means of two screw rings on each side.
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1524 Reg. Privy Seal Scot. I. 492 Ane Letter to Robert Gib, of the gift of the service of steropmanschip to the king..siclik as ony uthir steropman to the king had of before.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > fee for services rendered > [noun] > payments for other specific services
barber feec1380
alnage1418
school fee1512
pinlocka1525
warden-fee1531
wait fee1563
fullage1611
pipe-moneya1637
marriage money1674
sharping-corn1681
spy-money1713
crimpage1732
cooperage1755
stirrup money1757
stub-money1776
membership fee1860
1757 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. IV. 282 Stirrup money for the grooms.
stirrup-piece n. (a) (see quot. 1850); (b) nonce-use a poem relating to riding.
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the world > space > relative position > support > hanging or suspension > [noun] > that by which something is suspended > in a framework
stirrup-piece1850
1850 J. Ogilvie Imperial Dict. Stirrup piece, a name given to a piece of wood or iron in framing, by which any part is suspended; a vertical or inclined tie.
1875 E. C. Stedman Victorian Poets (ed. 13) ix. 302 That superb stirrup-piece..‘How they brought the good news’.
stirrup pump n. a portable hand pump held steady by a stirrup-like foot-plate and used, esp. in the war of 1939–45, for extinguishing small fires and incendiary bombs with water drawn from a bucket and directed by a hose.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > extinguishing fire > [noun] > fire-fighting > a substance or apparatus for extinguishing > pump
fire pump1708
syringe-engine1875
stirrup pump1939
1902 Shand, Mason & Co.'s Portable Fire Appliances 3b This is another adaptation of the ‘London Brigade’ Hand Pump. The pump is..provided with a stirrup, by means of which it can be used with an ordinary house pail.]
1939 C. C. Ramsay Fire-fighting in Peace & War vi. 41 The Home Office specification insists on a stirrup pump with a 30-ft. length of ½-in. rubber tubing (hose).
1939 Punch 27 Sept. 342/1 The long day, with its stream of gas-masks, sandbags, stirrup-pumps, dugouts,..had drawn to a close.
1974 M. Gilbert Flash Point xx. 165 He..had a stirrup pump, a relic of the last war, ready primed in the hall.
stirrup side n. ? the left side of a horse (cf. stirrup-foot n.).
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > body or parts of horse > [noun] > particular side of
nearside1650
stirrup side1663
offside1675
1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. ii. 78 Rais'd upon his desperate foot On stirrup side he gaz'd about.
stirrup-stocking n. = sense 2c.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for legs > [noun] > footless stocking
stirrup-stocking1611
scogger1615
stirrup-hose1659
hogger1666
stirrup1714
traheen1817
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Chaussettes à estrier, stirrup stockings.
1662 in M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family Commonwealth (1894) 382 6 Pair thread stirrup stockings.
1748 S. Richardson Clarissa V. i. 10 He could let me have a pair of coarse, but clean, stirrup-stockens, if I pleased.
stirrup-stone n. ? a stone used for mounting a horse.
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society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > [noun] > mounting a horse > mounting-block
mounting place1490
riding block1570
block1614
mounting block1659
horsing stone1661
horsing-block1662
upping-stocka1697
joss-block1706
horse-block1713
mounting stone1794
upping-block1796
upping-stone1809
horse-steps1828
leaping-on-stone1837
stepping-stone1837
stirrup-stone1838
pillion stone1907
1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Alice I. iv. iii. 356 The peacock, who, perched on an old stirrup-stone, was sunning his gay plumage.
stirrup-strap n. a leather strap by which a stirrup is suspended.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > stirrup > stirrup-leather
stirrup-leather139.
stirrup-strap1775
1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Stirrup-strap..the strap of leather by which the stirrup is suspended.
1890 A. Conan Doyle White Company xxxvii Stooping down he loosened the stirrup-straps.
stirrup-vase n. [misrendering of German bügelkanne, formed after bügeleisen flat-iron] Archaeology a ‘pseudamphora’ with a square-cut handle on either side of the false spout.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > jar > [noun] > amphora > specific
stirrup-vase1905
1905 A. J. Evans Prehist. Tombs Knossos in Archaeologia 59 510 The stirrup-vases or false-necked amphoras.
stirrup-verse n. a verse at parting.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > light poem > [noun] > verse written for specific occasion > at parting
stirrup-verse1680
1680 J. Speed Batt upon Batt 12 No stirrup-Verse at Grave before she go?
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > [noun] > for horses or for riding
horse-way985
ridingc1175
ridewaya1500
warple1565
bridleway1667
stirrup-way1736
horse-road1740
bridle road1745
horse-path1755
bridle path1779
ride1789
bridle track1794
horse-track1836
bridle traila1858
spur road1883
horse-ride1903
1736 J. Lewis Hist. Isle Tenet (ed. 2) 38 Shire-way, a Way or only Horse or Foot Passengers; a Bridle or Stirrup-way.
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stirrupv.
/ˈstɪrəp/, U.S. /ˈstɪrəp/ 1. transitive. To supply with or as with stirrups.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [verb (transitive)] > stirrup
stirrup1610
1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie iv. xv. 233 He beareth Argent three Saddles stirroped, sable.
1684 in W. R. Scott Rec. Sc. Cloth Manufactory New Mills (1905) 64 Orders lykways the silk stocken stiruped in the head be maid wydder in the topps.
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1672 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd (1673) ii. 85 This is that man who insists so much and stirrops himself upon the Gravity of his Profession.
3. transitive. To flog with a stirrup-leather or with a shoemaker's stirrup. slang.
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society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > administer corporal punishment [verb (transitive)] > with strap or thong
belt1568
leathera1630
strappado1655
stirrup1735
thong1746
strap1832
1735 W. Pardon Dyche's New Gen. Eng. Dict. Stirrup, to thrash or beat a Person with a Shoe-makers Stirrup.
4. Nautical. To attach stirrups to.
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society > travel > travel by water > other nautical operations > [verb (transitive)] > attach stirrup or becket
stirrup1748
becket1823
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson i. x. 104 We exerted ourselves..to stirrup our shrouds.
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ˈstirruped adj. provided with a stirrup.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [adjective] > having stirrups
stirruped1685
1685 in W. R. Scott Rec. Sc. Cloth Manufactory New Mills (1905) 87 That they may be made long and well marreilled and full in the top as if had stiruped head.
1878 R. L. Stevenson Inland Voy. 184 The stirrupped foot projects insolently from the frame.
ˈstirruping n. a flogging with a stirrup-leather.
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society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [noun] > with leather or strap > instance of
stirrup-oil1679
stirrupingc1820
strap-oil1847
c1820 J. Kitto in Eadie Life (1857) 32 [The beadle] gravely gave us a stirruping all round.
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- filter tip
- filter tipping
- filter-caked
- filter-feeding
- filter-passer
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