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单词 stirrup-oil
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stirrup-oiln.

Etymology: Compare stirrup-leather n. b.
jocular.
(See quots.)
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society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [noun] > with leather or strap > instance of
stirrup-oil1679
stirrupingc1820
strap-oil1847
1679 E. Coles Dict. Eng.-Lat. (ed. 2) To give one some Stirrup-oyl, aliquem fustigare.
1825 W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1826) I. 411 They send to a cobbler's for a pennyworth of the best ‘stirrup-oil.’
1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 297 One of the old jokes practised on the 1st of April is the sending a raw lad to a saddler's or cobler's for a ‘penn'orth of stirrup-oil,’ when he is termed an April fool, and his ignorance enlightened by the application of a stirrup-leather across his shoulders.
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