stirrup

But one boot has slipped from its stirrup.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

A safety stirrup, which creates a step out of a leash, may be helpful.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 8, 2022

As a kid, I had a pair of her plaid stirrup pants — with her name on the label — that I bought at the old Flip on 8th Street.

From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2018

Kelly Forman said she became a recluse after suffering a spinal injury and brain damage in a June 2011 fall after Mark Henkin fitted her horse with a defective stirrup.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 13, 2018

He began putting his weight in a stirrup when Gabilan was saddled, but he didn’t throw his leg over the pony’s back.

From "The Red Pony" by John Steinbeck

Archaeologists have typically considered modern-day China the birthplace of the first frame saddles and stirrups -- with some finds dating back to the 5th to 6th Century C.E. or even earlier.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 12, 2023

When my feet were comfortably positioned in stirrups, she offered three words: “Rest is resistance,” taken from the title of the book by Tricia Hersey of the Nap Ministry.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2023

Her clinic has three patient beds and a birthing room with a bare mattress, stirrups and a single IV pole.

From Salon ● Feb. 27, 2023

For the biopsy, she was placed in stirrups and given a spinal epidural to numb the area.

From New York Times ● Oct. 17, 2022

Woolf kicked off his stirrups, leaned his weight on his hands, swung his right leg over Seabiscuit’s rump, and pushed himself into the air.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand