stirrupless

I would definitely need stirrups, but I understand some of the Persians rode with, essentially, stirrupless bareback pads.

The Volokh Conspiracy » The Templars and other Monastic Military Orders: 2007

The pony's unshod hoofs had made hardly any sound on the turf as he cantered off, and Lara's boy, in his loose shirt and shabby clothes, and his bare feet hanging stirrupless on each side of the pony, disappeared like a wraith.

Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir

Coatless and hatless, tattered, wounded and stained, Harry swung himself to the bare back of a stirrupless steed and galloped out on what he knew was the most dangerous of all the pathways of Pauline.

The Perils of Pauline Charles Goddard 1915

It was nothing -- my little sister's mule had gone near a steep cliff -- perilously near, as its rider thought, but I saw why I must not look back; those two little girls were riding astride on side-saddles, the booted little right foot of each dangling stirrupless -- a posture quite decorous but ludicrous.

A Knight of the Cumberland 1906

Some were so close to him as he looked down upon them that he could see clearly their thin wiry horses, and the strange humped figures of the swarthy riders, sitting forward on the withers, shapeless bundles, their short legs hanging stirrupless, their bodies balanced as firmly as though they were part of the beast.

The Last Galley Impressions and Tales Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

Some were so close to him as he looked down upon them that he could see clearly their thin, wiry horses, and the strange humped figures of their swarthy riders, sitting forward on the withers, shapeless bundles, their short legs hanging stirrupless, their bodies balanced as firmly as though they were part of the beast.

The Last of the Legions and Other Tales of Long Ago Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

It was nothing -- my little sister's mule had gone near a steep cliff -- perilously near, as its rider thought, but I saw why I must not look back; those two little girls were riding astride on side-saddles, the booted little right foot of each dangling stirrupless -- a posture quite decorous but ludicrous.

A Knight of the Cumberland John Fox 1891

It made his heart beat quicker with a victorious headlong delight, as his knees pressed closer into Forest King's flanks, and, half stirrupless like the

Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida 1839-1908 Ouida 1873

It made his heart beat quicker with a victorious, headlong delight, as his knees pressed close into Forest King's flanks, and, half stirrupless like the

Under Two Flags 1839-1908 Ouida 1873

But he had ridden stirrupless and saddleless ere now; he recovered himself with the suppleness of an Arab, and firm-seated behind the collar, with one leg crushed between the pole and Maraschino's flanks, gathering in the ribbons till they were tight-drawn as a bridle, he strained with all the might and sinew that were in him to get the grays in hand before they could plunge down into the water.

Under Two Flags 1839-1908 Ouida 1873