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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Stirrup \Stir"rup\, noun [OE. stirop, AS. stigr[=a]p; st[=i]gan to mount, ascend + r[=a]p a rope; akin to G. stegreif a stirrup. [root]164. See {Sty}, verb (used without an object), and {Rope}.]
1. 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.
Our host upon his stirpoes stood anon. --Chaucer.
2. (Carp. & Mach.) Any piece resembling in shape the stirrup of a saddle, and used as a support, clamp, etc. See {Bridle iron}.
3. (Naut.) A rope secured to a yard, with a thimble in its lower end for supporting a footrope. --Totten.
{Stirrup bone} (Anat.), the stapes.
{Stirrup cup}, a parting cup taken after mounting.
{Stirrup iron}, an iron stirrup.
{Stirrup leather}, or {Stirrup strap}, the strap which attaches a stirrup to the saddle. See {Stirrup}, 1.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Bridle iron \Bri"dle i'ron\ (Arch.) 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}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
stirrup
noun
1: support consisting of metal loops into which rider's feet go [syn: {stirrup iron}]
2: the stirrup-shaped ossicle that transmits sound from the incus to the cochlea [syn: {stapes}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
52 Moby Thesaurus words for "stirrup": Eustachian tube, anvil, auditory apparatus, auditory canal, auditory meatus, auditory nerve, auditory ossicles, auditory tube, auricle, basilar membrane, bellyband, bony labyrinth, cauliflower ear, cinch, cochlea, conch, concha, drumhead, ear, ear lobe, eardrum, endolymph, external ear, girt, girth, hammer, horn, incus, inner ear, jockey, lobe, lobule, lug, malleus, mastoid process, middle ear, organ of Corti, outer ear, oval window, perilymph, pinna, pommel, round window, secondary eardrum, semicircular canals, shell, stapes, surcingle, tympanic cavity, tympanic membrane, tympanum, vestibule
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