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witch's stirrups

witch's stirrups is the plural of witch's stirrup.

Meaning of witch's stirrup

Noun

witch's stirrup (plural witch's stirrups)

  1. (uncommon) A tangle in a horse's mane.
    • [He may look with] awe on the witch's stirrup in his colt's mane; but on the whole, the belief in witches has passed utterly away.1890, The Baptist Quarterly Review, page 139

Questions about witch's stirrups

What is witch's stirrups the plural of?
Witch's stirrups is the plural of witch's stirrup.

Words near witch's stirrups in the dictionary

  1. witch's ladder
  2. witch's ladders
  3. witch's milk
  4. witch's moneybags
  5. witch's stirrup
  6. witch's stirrups
  7. witch's teat
  8. witch's teats
  9. witch's water
  10. witch-ball
  11. witch-balls

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