[f. STIRRUP sb.]
1. trans. To supply with or as with stirrups.
1610. Guillim, Heraldry, IV. xv. (1611), 233. He beareth argent three saddles stirroped sable.
1684. Rec. Scott. Cloth Manuf. New Mills (S.H.S.), 64. Orders lykways the silk stocken stiruped in the head be maid wydder in the topps.
† 2. refl. To rise in the stirrups; in quot. fig. to pride oneself upon something. Obs. (? nonce-use.)
1672. Marvell, Reh. Transp., II. (1673), 85. This is that man who insists so much and stirrops himself upon the Gravity of his Profession.
3. trans. To flog with a stirrup-leather or with a shoemaker’s stirrup. slang.
1735. Dyche & Pardon, Dict., Stirrup v., to thrash or beat a Person with a Shoe-makers Stirrup.
4. Naut. To attach stirrups to.
1748. Anson’s Voy., I. x. 104. We exerted ourselves … to stirrup our shrouds.
Hence Stirruped ppl. a., provided with a stirrup; Stirruping vbl. sb., a flogging with a stirrup-leather.
1685. Rec. Scott. Cloth Manuf. New Mills (S.H.S.), 87. That they may be made long and well marreilled and full in the top as if had stiruped head.
c. 1820. J. Kitto, in Eadie, Life (1857), 32. [The beadle] gravely gave us a stirruping all round.
1878. Stevenson, Inland Voy., 184. The stirrupped foot projects insolently from the frame.
