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stirrup

/ˈstɪ.ɹəp/US/ˈstɝ.əp/

stirrup noun: a ring or hoop suspended by a rope or strap from the saddle, for a horseman's foot while mounting or riding.

stirrup: a ring or hoop suspended by a rope or strap from the saddle, for a horseman's foot while mounting...
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Noun

stirrup (plural stirrups)

  1. A ring or hoop suspended by a rope or strap from the saddle, for a horseman's foot while mounting or riding.
    • With what different feelings did he now put foot in stirrup to the last time when he sprung to horse?1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, pages 36–37
  2. (broadly) Any piece shaped like the stirrup of a saddle, used as a support, clamp, etc.
    • Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke.[…]A silver snaffle on a heavy leather watch guard which connected the pockets of his corduroy waistcoat, together with a huge gold stirrup in his Ascot tie, sufficiently proclaimed his tastes.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC
    1. (broadly) A portable, flexible ladder-like device used in climbing.
  3. A stapes.
  4. A rope secured to a yard, with a thimble in its lower end for supporting a footrope.
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:stirrup.
  5. A bent rebar wrapped around the main rebars to reinforce against shear stress.

Adjective

stirrup (not comparable)

  1. Referring to women's pants/trousers: being of a form, commonly worn by women, that includes a strap beneath the arch of the foot.

Proper noun capitalized: Stirrup

Stirrup

  1. A surname.

stirrup meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

stirrup in Hindi

footrest used by riders
रकाब rakāb

stirrup in Tamil

அங்கவடி, ஏந்தி, பரியங்கவடி, கலக்கு, தாங்குவளையம்

stirrup in Urdu

footrest used by riders
رَکاب rakāb

stirrup in Bengali

footrest used by riders
রেকাব rekab
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stirrup in Malayalam
അങ്കവടി, കുതിരസവാരിക്കാരൻ കാൽ ചവിട്ടുന്ന പടി, അശ്വാരൂഢൻറെ പാദാധാരം
stirrup in Kannada
ಅಂಕಣಿ aṅkaṇi
stirrup in Gujarati
પેંગડું peṅgḍũ, પેગડું pegḍũ, રકાબ rakāb, રિકાબ rikāb
stirrup in Pashto
رکاب rekāb
stirrup in Arabic
رِكَاب rikāb
stirrup in Malay
rakap
stirrup in Persian
رِکاب rekâb
stirrup in Thai
โกลน gloon
stirrup in Vietnamese
bàn đạp
stirrup in Myanmar
နင်းကွင်း nang:kwang:

Examples of stirrup in a sentence

  • Like us with our stirrups, which are not exactly the latest in athletic sockwear.
  • The equalising beam ends fit into stirrups cast integral with the Skefko self-aligning roller-bearing axleboxes.
  • “Git down before I⸺” Mighty gets to his feet and staggers loose from the stirrups.

All 15 example sentences with stirrup

Synonyms of stirrup

Forms of stirrup

pluralstirrups

Origin of stirrup

From Middle English stirop, stirope, from Old English stiġrāp (“stirrup”), a compound of stiġe ("ascent, descent, a going up or down"; related to stīġan (“to climb”)) and rāp (“rope”), equivalent to sty + rope. Cognate with Dutch stegereep, stegelreep (“stirrup”), Old Saxon stigerēp (“stirrup”), Middle High German stereip, stegreif ("stirrup"; > German Stegreif (“improvisation”)), Icelandic stigreip (“stirrup”).

Words formed from stirrup

Phrases with stirrup

Words that rhyme with stirrup

Questions about stirrup

What does stirrup mean?
Stirrup means a ring or hoop suspended by a rope or strap from the saddle, for a horseman's foot while mounting or riding.
What is stirrup in Hindi?
Stirrup in Hindi is रकाब (rakāb). See Stirrup meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is stirrup?
Stirrup can be a noun, an adjective or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce stirrup?
Stirrup is pronounced /ˈstɪ.ɹəp/ (UK).
What is the plural of stirrup?
The plural of stirrup is stirrups.

Words near stirrup in the dictionary

  1. stirring up
  2. stirring up a hornets' nest
  3. stirring up the animals
  4. stirringly
  5. stirrings
  6. stirrup
  7. stirrup bone
  8. stirrup bones
  9. stirrup cup
  10. stirrup cups
  11. stirrup iron

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: stirrup (page history and authors); Stirrup (page history and authors); stirrup (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); stirrup (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ಅಂಕಣಿ (Kannada) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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