stirrup

Examples

• All

• Stirrup, straps.

  Happily N'Ever After (2007)

• I love it when you put me in those stirrups And examine me with your speculum.

  Girl 6 (1996)

• David makes a stirrup by intertwining his fingers.

  Fiction book (1992)

• I barely feel anything in the stirrups.

  Seabiscuit (2003)

• Every few pages, one comes across a memorable construction like the following: "Ingrassia could keep the stirrup bone;

  Academic text (2016)

• And so if your ears have become generally damaged through Gen., you know what you might call the subtle, was it the anvil and the stirrup and so forth.

• And you can see that there are a linkage of three bones, the hammer, anvil and stirrup, or if you will in ancient language, malleus, incus and stapes.

• Holding the back of the blue gown closed over her beautiful butt, Leila is at the chalkboard, writing the words: MAN, WOMAN, BIRTH, DEATH, INFINITY. DISSOLVE TO: INT. DR. KIRK'S EXAM ROOM -- DAY Leila, her face resting in a stirrup, is sleeping.

  Fiction book (1999)

• The stirrup, which is the smallest bone in the human body, helps transmit sound vibrations to the cochlea.

• In the middle ear, the stirrup bone works with the anvil and hammer to carry sound vibrations to the inner ear.

Synonyms

S

stapes

vsstirrup

• Specialized

9.9

A tiny bone in the middle ear that carries sound vibrations to the inner ear

is the everyday descriptive name rather than the anatomical term

Compounds

S

stirrup iron

1 6.8

A metal loop on a saddle that holds a rider's foot

S

stirrup cup

• Archaic

9.9

A quick drink given to a person on a horse just before they leave

S

stirrup pump

• Archaic

7.0

A small hand tool you set on the ground and use to spray water to fight small fires

Surface Forms

Etymology