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stirrup leather

noun
  1. the strap that holds the stirrup of a saddle.
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Origin of stirrup leather

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400
Also called stirrup strap.
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Historical Examples of stirrup leather

  • Tie the rascal to your stirrup-leather, Juan, and let us be moving.

    Roger the Bold

    F. S. Brereton

  • Thus did Ardassan Ougli speak, after receiving the stirrup-leather from one of his masters.

  • And Punch limped painfully to the side of the second dragoon, while Pen took hold of the stirrup-leather of the first.

    !Tention

    George Manville Fenn

  • Even the pony felt the good influence and almost broke into a trot as Kim laid a hand on the stirrup-leather.

    Kim

    Rudyard Kipling

  • Twice he nearly lost hold of the stirrup-leather and would have fallen; then at last became aware of slackening pace.