stirrup

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  1. noun A flat-based loop or ring hung from either side of a horse's saddle to support the rider's foot in mounting and riding; a stirrup iron.
  2. noun A part or device shaped like an inverted U in which something is supported, held, or fixed.
  3. noun Nautical A rope on a ship that hangs from a yard and has an eye at the end through which a footrope is passed for support.
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  1. Middle English stirope, from Old English stīgrāp : stīgan, to mount; see steigh- in Indo-European roots + rāp, rope.

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  1. Early modern English also stirrop, stirop, sterope; from Middle English stirop, styrop, styrope, sterepe, from Anglo-Saxon stīrāp, stigrāp, stigerāp (= Middle Dutch stegerep, steeghreep, also stegelreep = Old High German stegareif, Middle High German G. stegreif = Icelandic stigreip), literally ‘mounting-rope.’ from stīgan, mount, + rāp, rope: see sty and rope. Cf. Dutch stijg-beugel = German steig-bägel = Swedish stig-bygel = Danish stig-böjle, a stirrup, literally a ring or loop for mounting (see bail).
 

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