stirrup
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At the farm, he leaves a foot between rows of Allium to allow for easy weeding with the six-inch blade of a stirrup hoe.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 31, 2024
The aptly named stapes looks very much like a stirrup.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
The saddle had to be the 1885 McClellan style, and the flag anchor in the rider’s right stirrup from 1904.
From Washington Post • May 27, 2021
The stitching stiffened the shaft, while the smooth sole and high heel let the foot slide easily into the stirrup and remain there.
From The Wall Street Journal • Aug. 21, 2018
One of his students advised him that Giovanni Filippo Ingrassia, who was teaching in Naples, had already discovered this bone and named it stapes, or ‘the stirrup’.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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