单词 | stirrup-leather |
释义 | stirrup-leathern. a. The leather strap by which a stirrup hangs from the saddle. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > stirrup > stirrup-leather stirrup-leather139. stirrup-strap1775 139. Earl Derby's Exped. (Camden) 46 Pro j pare styrop., et styrop lethres, viij s. pr. 1394–5 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1901) III. 599 In 2 par. de Stirhaplethirs et 1 pari de Stiraps, 18d. 1470 in M. Sellers York Memorandum Bk. (1912) I. 92 To make stirrop lethyrs of blak barked lethir. 1591 R. Greene Second Pt. Conny-catching sig. A2 Stirhops and stirhop leathers, so quaintly and artificially made that it may bee put in the slop of a mans hose. 1620 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes 2nd Pt. Don Quixote xiv. 87 So he ran after his Master, laying hold vpon one of Rozinantes stirrup leathers. 1701 London Gaz. No. 3717/4 He had on a plain Leathern Saddle with new Stirrup-Leathers. 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer xvi The length of the stirrup-leathers conveyed..the fact that the rider..was an individual of unusual length of limb. 1895 H. Maxwell Duke of Brit. xii. 171 Numidian lancers..riding with very short stirrup-leathers after the African custom. b. As an instrument for flogging. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > instrument or place of corporal punishment > [noun] > strap tawsa1585 stirrup-leather1611 strapc1710 belt1767 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Stafilade, a lash, or thwacke with a stirrup-leather. 1652 J. Wright tr. J.-P. Camus Nature's Paradox ix. 226 The Souldiers..laced their shoulders so well with their stirrop-leathers, that they made them swim in their own blood. 1726 N. Blundell Diary (1895) 221 I had seaven Lads of this Town beaton at my Gate-Hous with a Sterrop-Leather. 1831 W. Scott Castle Dangerous vi, in Tales of my Landlord 4th Ser. IV. 166 Flagellation with belts, stirrup-leathers, or surcingles. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online March 2020). < n.139. |
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