Stirrup
['stɪrəp]
解釋/意思:
(v. i.) A kind of ring, or bent piece of metal, wood, leather, or the like, horizontal in one part for receiving the foot of a rider, and attached by a strap to the saddle, -- used to assist a person in mounting a horse, and to enable him to sit steadily in riding, as well as to relieve him by supporting a part of the weight of the body.
(v. i.) Any piece resembling in shape the stirrup of a saddle, and used as a support, clamp, etc. See Bridle iron.
(v. i.) A rope secured to a yard, with a thimble in its lower end for supporting a footrope.
錄入:莫拉
解釋/意思:
n. a ring or hoop suspended by a rope or strap from the saddle for a horseman's foot while mounting or riding: a rope secured to a yard having a thimble in its lower end for reeving a foot-rope.—ns. Stirr′up-cup a cup taken by one who is departing on horseback; Stirr′up-ī′ron the ring of iron attached to the stirrup-leather to receive the foot; Stirr′up-leath′er -strap the strap of leather that supports a stirrup.
哈恩編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- Brian de Bois-Guilbert rolled on the field, encumbered with the stirrup, from which he was unable to draw his foot. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Both Knights broke their lances fairly, but Front-de-Boeuf, who lost a stirrup in the encounter, was adjudged to have the disadvantage. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- This was tied across the saddle and at each end it was lashed to the stirrup leathers. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- Give her to me, Fitzurse, and I will maintain her as fits her rank, with the help of lance and stirrup, said De Bracy. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Next, it was a bright idea to put a stirrup on this end, in order to hold it with the foot. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Mrs. Sparsit took her foot out of her stirrup, and said, 'Mr. Bounderby, sir! 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- He looked through the trees to where Primitivo, holding the reins of the horse, was twisting the rider's foot out of the stirrup. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- Through the trees he saw where the gray horse had stopped and was standing, his rider still hanging face down from the stirrup. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- Mrs. Sparsit netting at the fireside, in a side-saddle attitude, with one foot in a cotton stirrup. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- Mrs. Sparsit sat by the fire, with her foot in her cotton stirrup, little thinking whither she was posting. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- I can go, Mr. Bounderby, if you wish it,' said that self-sacrificing lady, making a feint of taking her foot out of the stirrup. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- The bit, the saddle, the stirrup, these are not primitive things, but they are necessary if man and horse are to keep going for long stretches. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- He raised himself in his stirrups with an air of inexpressible dignity, and exclaimed, What means this, my masters! 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Smith happened to have an extra horse at Bruinsburg which I borrowed, with a saddle-tree without upholstering further than stirrups. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
整理:默尔