Stirrup

The stirrup rests on the oval window of the inner ear.

The stirrup is a bone in the middle ear, between the anvil and the inner ear.

Sami put his foot in the stirrup.

Human and elephant, mouse and porpoise, all have three small bones in their middle ear — the hammer, the anvil, and the stirrup.

He put his foot into the stirrup, then jumped onto the horse.

With what different feelings did he now put foot in stirrup to the last time when he sprung to horse?

Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke.[…]A silver snaffle on a heavy leather watch guard which connected the pockets of his corduroy waistcoat, together with a huge gold stirrup in his Ascot tie, sufficiently proclaimed his tastes.

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