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stirrup leather

noun

  1. the strap that holds the stirrup of a saddle.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of stirrup leather1

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400
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Jed, who was slipping and stumbling along, with the water up to his shoulders, managed to grasp the left stirrup leather.

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The leather should be fitted on the near side, in a similar manner to a man's stirrup leather, and be quite independent of the quarter strap.

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However, he became a little less sure that reticence was advisable when he saw that Ingleby and Sewell visited the Gold Commissioner every now and then; and it happened, somewhat unfortunately, that he dismounted to take up a stirrup leather when riding back to his outpost through the cañon one evening.

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Amongst a museum of stuffed crocodiles, catamarans, a parrot fish from the Dead Sea, sundry Egyptian warlike implements, musical instruments, and mediæval deities painted on glass, there hangs a solitary broken stirrup leather which has a story.

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She was lame on the off fore, and the rope had skinned her shins in several places; my own shoulder and arm were bruised, and I had broken a stirrup leather.

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