stirrup leather

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of stirrup leather¹

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400

Example Sentences

Jed, who was slipping and stumbling along, with the water up to his shoulders, managed to grasp the left stirrup leather.

From Project Gutenberg

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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