What is "stirrups"

Usage examples of "stirrups".

Malud, who was standing in his stirrups to deliver his blow, was almost in a state of equilibrium and having his buckler ready for defense was quite helpless insofar as maneuvering his mount was concerned.

He was seated facing forward, feet propped up m the stirrups, watching this spectacular country advancing between his legs.

When he woke the next morning, he found himself not in his bed, either at home or at the hotel, but sprawled in open air among the straps and stirrups of this bizarre chair, being baked in his epidermal jacket by a ruthless sun, dazed, headachy, oozing juice.

Once there, his feet were latched to his stirrups, and the horse was led away.

Chase muttered under his breath, and the saddle leather creaked as he momentarily put weight on the stirrups to shift his position in the seat.

Ty gave her a leg up onto the back of the flashy blood bay, made sure the stirrups were properly adjusted to her leg length, then mounted his own horse.

That was why both cavalry and stock saddles came with stirrups slung low enough for a rider to stand in and let the saddle hammer thin air instead of his balls while his pony bounced along at an easy trot.

Slow and steady would win this fight, and that natural caution was reinforced by the sight of a riderless horse, its flank a sheet of crimson, limping southward down the turnpike with its reins trailing in the dust and its stirrups dripping with blood.

He settled his feet in his stirrups, pushed his repeating rifle into its saddle holster, eased his saber an inch or two from its scabbard, then made sure his two revolvers were in easy reach.

All press on their stirrups and fall upon them and attack them, so that they strike dead thirty-and-one before they have given the challenge.

Cliges, who is mightily vexed thereat, presses with all his weight on his stirrups, and rides to strike him so rapidly that the Saxon, in spite of himself, has voided his saddle-bows.

The first man swung his sword as he stood in his stirrups and the second was already reaching for Blake with his point.

It would mean special saddles with special stirrups and a long, painful instructing time.