stirrup

Then, while trying to put my feet into these stirrup things like I was about to give birth, I fell off the machine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

A safety stirrup, which creates a step out of a leash, may be helpful.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 8, 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

As a kid, I had a pair of her plaid stirrup pants — with her name on the label — that I bought at the old Flip on 8th Street.

From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2018

If I let go I’d fall, but I’d have a precious moment to reach for the flapping reins or try to yank my calf from the stirrup.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

"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

When my feet were comfortably positioned in stirrups, she offered three words: “Rest is resistance,” taken from the title of the book by Tricia Hersey of the Nap Ministry.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 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 appeared at dawn on Sunday like a prince in a fairy tale, riding a horse with silver stirrups and a velvet blanket, and he left town after mass.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez