Use a hula hoe (also called a stirrup hoe) or dandelion knife to chop weedy grasses out just below the soil level. From Wordnik.com. [thetowntalk.com -] Reference
Characteristic shapes high goblet and 'stirrup' vase (III, Figs. 17 and 16). From Wordnik.com. [How to Observe in Archaeology] Reference
RN: If you're about to invoke the word "stirrup," I am so out of here. From Wordnik.com. [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference
Prince with his foot in the stirrup, looking at the men. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899] Reference
I never use a stirrup and never think of a thing but his mouth!. From Wordnik.com. [Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888] Reference
Maggie slipped from the donkey and ran to her father's stirrup. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7] Reference
But the stirrup held him up that he did not fall to the ground. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Tales of Fact and Fancy Myths and Legends of the Nations of the World Retold for Boys and Girls] Reference
During the hunt, keep by her stirrup, and be as gallant as you can. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
There was a laugh on his lips and his foot was already in the stirrup. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
He helped her to mount and walked to the top of the mound at her stirrup. From Wordnik.com. [Uncanny Tales] Reference
But I'd like to have another child someday, so I raised her up into the stirrup. From Wordnik.com. [Go Ahead] Reference
Bridger store, such as snaffles and check-bits, stirrup-leathers, halters and girths. From Wordnik.com. [Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century] Reference
The useless stirrup, that flopped and struck the lame foot, she tucked up out of the way. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl from Sunset Ranch Or, Alone in a Great City] Reference
"Soon?" he repeated as he rose in the stirrup -- "soon -- and to claim you always, Alice.". From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
His left foot lost its sure hold in the stirrup, and presently slipped out of it altogether. From Wordnik.com. [Kiddie the Scout] Reference
The pressure of his right foot on the other stirrup caused the saddle to move still farther. From Wordnik.com. [Kiddie the Scout] Reference
There was no time for him to cut the stirrup strap, or to attempt to get his hurt foot free. From Wordnik.com. [Kiddie the Scout] Reference
He came forward, bowing low before his liege, then steadied a stirrup as the Duke dismounted. From Wordnik.com. [Millennium] Reference
Every time I set foot in the stirrup he went up in the air, pitched, and bucked and sun-fished. From Wordnik.com. [Land of the Burnt Thigh] Reference
She was dismayed, therefore, when she heard that he had held the stirrup for Gunther to dismount. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Tales of Fact and Fancy Myths and Legends of the Nations of the World Retold for Boys and Girls] Reference
Eighth-century Franks developed the stirrup, making horses useful for fighting as well as mobility. From Wordnik.com. [From Bayonets To Tomahawks] Reference
In her story (Society & The Arts, Jan. 11), the stirrup is listed among the most important inventions. From Wordnik.com. [Capitalism Anew?, Soros On The Global Economy, Fi] Reference
To affix them to the leg, the foot is placed as in a stirrup from C to B, the claw ED pointing inward. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference
Here hovered the squires, adjusting a stirrup, giving a last turn to a strap, or testing a bridle or girth. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
When they separated the latter, unobserved as he thought, struck the point of his weapon against his stirrup. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
He threw the stirrup over the top of the saddle and fished under the now quiet horse for her dangling surcingle. From Wordnik.com. [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference
THE stirrup Historian Lynn White argues that the stirrup revolutionized warfare and made feudal society possible. From Wordnik.com. [The Power Of Big Ideas] Reference
"Was we to let out a yell now, they'd drag it so fast they'd dig their hoofs in clear down to the stirrup leathers.". From Wordnik.com. [Ride Proud, Rebel!] Reference
Here are people who step into a stirrup with the same ease that you press your keyless remote and climb into the car. From Wordnik.com. [Western Swing Gets Texas Town Scootin' Again] Reference
He found, presently, that the water was thick and made him tired, so it was necessary to grasp a stirrup and be towed. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference
He freed one foot momentarily from the stirrup and surveyed a piece of very new and shiny footware with open admiration. From Wordnik.com. [Ride Proud, Rebel!] Reference
She sews swimsuit cups and underwires into stretchy stirrup pantsuits to create sleek, one-step outfits for night or day. From Wordnik.com. [Gidget Goes High Fashion] Reference
This season, he created a holiday collection full of synthetic daytime clothes, including denim and Lycra stretch stirrup pants. From Wordnik.com. [Gidget Goes High Fashion] Reference
The main rods were ordered cut to length, but the stirrup rods were ordered in lengths of 20 ft. and cut to lengths as required. From Wordnik.com. [Concrete Construction Methods and Costs] Reference
Less than a trot, more than a walk, you can neither sit still nor rise in your stirrup, but must just jog along till you fairly ache. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference
"Methinks my stirrup is caught fast in the housing!" she interrupted with an exclamation of dismay: and there was naught to do for the. From Wordnik.com. [The Royal Pawn of Venice A Romance of Cyprus] Reference
"Hurry," the Toyman went on in excitement, "there's your horse -- come, put your foot in the stirrup an 'lick him up an' away we'll go!". From Wordnik.com. [Half-Past Seven Stories] Reference
He turned away, tightened his saddle girths, cast a look on the pandemonium before him, looked back with one foot already in the stirrup. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
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