stirrup lantern (stir up lantern)

A small lantern with an iron frame fastened below the stirrup to light the road at night and also to warm the rider's feet: a contrivance used in the IMG:content-2153.png:[blocks in formation] stirrup-oil (stir'up-oil), n. a drubbing. Hall i well. [Prov. Eng.] stirrup-piece (stir'up-pēs), n. In carp ., mach . , etc., anything which performs the office of a stirrup, in p, in hanging from a fixed point of support and supporting anything else which lies in its loop or hollow. A stythe man of his stature, stirond of wille, Menyt hym to mony thinges, & of mynde gode. Destruction of Troy (E. E. E. T. S.), 1. 3833. stirrup (stir'- or ster'up), n. [Early mod. E. also stirrop, stirop, sterope; = IMG:content-2154.png:[blocks in formation] are commonly more quiet, and le subject to sedition, than where there are stirps of nobles. Bacon, Nobility (ed. 1887).