stirrup
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But one boot has slipped from its stirrup.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
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
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
"Ultimately, technology emerging from Mongolia has, through a domino effect, ended up shaping the horse culture that we have in America today, especially our traditions of saddlery and stirrups," Taylor said.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 12, 2023
I remember the saddled and riderless horse with the big black boots stuck backwards in the stirrups.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 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
He turned in his stirrups, looked back at the high ground, the cemetery.
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
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