(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Each moment was scripted, from the placement of his riding boots in the stirrups of the riderless black horse that accompanied his procession through Washington, to tonight’s burial at sunset back in California.
(2) After her husband’s death she carefully arranged the stirrups of the horse that accompanied his funeral procession.
(3) Blood gutters brightly against his green gown, yet the man doesn't shudder or stagger or sink but trudges towards them on those tree-trunk legs and rummages around, reaches at their feet and cops hold of his head and hoists it high, and strides to his steed, snatches the bridle, steps into the stirrup and swings into the saddle still gripping his head by a handful of hair.
(4) Eventually the pressure became too much, I abandoned my home birth plan and my baby was born in a more conventional way – forceps, episiotomy, feet in stirrups.
(5) Lord Stirrup said the story had given a "totally false picture" of what he was saying he could do.
(6) Nevertheless, the air stirrup has not been shown to provide significantly greater inversion restriction than taping or lace-on braces and is not recommended as a first-line method of support for individuals with no history of recent ankle sprain.
(7) Downing Street was irritated with Fox when he announced in June that Sir Jock Stirrup would be standing down as chief of the defence staff.
(8) Investigative need is cited in the areas of previous horse-related injury, lessons, experience vs knowledge, epilepsy, drowning, gender, deaths, safety helmets, stirrups, and body protectors.
(9) An advisory board on the commemorations, chaired by the culture secretary, Maria Miller, will include former head of the armed forces Sir Jock Stirrup, former head of the army Sir Richard Dannatt and former defence secretaries Tom King and George Robertson.
(10) With all the information provided, I feel very confident – if you showed me this video and asked me, as an ob-gyn, what it was, I would say a premature delivery, based on the bed, the stirrups, the techniques – abortion would not even come to mind,” said Gunter.
(11) From our experience with the stirrup at the Royal Perth Hospital, savings in ward costs can be achieved by shortening the time in hospital and reducing the need for antibiotic cover, by decreasing maintenance costs and by reducing the size of the appliance stock kept to cover the range of tractions used in orthopaedic practice.
(12) These deep perineal tears occurred in 0.9% of the women delivered of infants without the use of either episiotomy or stirrups and in 27.9% of the women delivered of infants with both episiotomy and stirrups.
(13) Simultaneous access is possible by placing the patient in a prone position with the thighs and knees cradled laterally in a "boot" type stirrup.
(14) We advocate the use of pneumatic air stirrup in the cost-effective management of stable ankle fractures.
(15) The chief of defence staff, Air Chief Marshal Sir Jock Stirrup, said the news would increase the determination of the troops on the ground: "Our armed forces take enormous pride in their role in Afghanistan where they are helping to provide security to protect our freedoms at home.
(16) Spontaneous deliveries of 241 nulliparous women were analyzed to test the hypothesis that both episiotomy and use of stirrups for delivery of infants were related to the occurrence of third- and fourth-degree perineal lacerations.
(17) Others fooled by the Sunday Times included Lord Dannatt, former head of the army; Admiral Trevor Soar, former head of the Royal Navy fleet; Lord Stirrup, former chief of the defence staff, and General Sir Mike Jackson, former head of the army.
(18) Lt Gen Richard Applegate, formerly head of procuring equipment at the MoD; Admiral Sir Trevor Soar, former commander of the naval fleet; Lord Dannatt, former head of the army; his predecessor, Sir Mike Jackson; Kiszely; and Lord Stirrup, former chief of defence staff, boasted away about what they could achieve.
(19) Fox and Cameron had agreed earlier this year that Stirrup would be retiring but No 10 was annoyed by Fox's decision to announce it.
(20) Isometric tension was recorded by means of stirrups passed through the wall of the central part of the bronchial segment.
Thimble
Definition:
(n.) A kind of cap or cover, or sometimes a broad ring, for the end of the finger, used in sewing to protect the finger when pushing the needle through the material. It is usually made of metal, and has upon the outer surface numerous small pits to catch the head of the needle.
(n.) Any thimble-shaped appendage or fixure.
(n.) A tubular piece, generally a strut, through which a bolt or pin passes.
(n.) A fixed or movable ring, tube, or lining placed in a hole.
(n.) A tubular cone for expanding a flue; -- called ferrule in England.
(n.) A ring of thin metal formed with a grooved circumference so as to fit within an eye-spice, or the like, and protect it from chafing.
Example Sentences:
(1) A conveniently formed thimble has been created for use in dissection during augmentation mammaplasty and gynecomastia operations which forms a rigid extension to the surgeon's finger.
(2) You will need : pins needle thread thimble iron Firstly, turn the garment inside out and iron the ripped area so it is nice and flat to work with.
(3) He left so few paintings – not more than 120 over a 40-year career – it is rightly said that he measured out his genius in thimblefuls.
(4) Paintings dark with age line the walls, and the audience sits on rough benches drinking thimbles of pruneau brandy.
(5) The pressurized gas exited through the pores of the glass frit and shattered the thin liquid film flowing on the surface of the thimble-shaped device to form small droplets.
(6) The use of a thimble to facilitate scrotal fixation of the testis is described.
(7) Radiation dose given to patients undergoing radiotherapy by 300 kVp X-rays is detected by a thimble ionization chamber placed at the skin surface.
(8) The chamber is capable of being calibrated directly with an iridium-192 source which has in turn been calibrated with thimble-type ion chambers.
(9) No significant differences in lithium release were found when the volume of media used in the test was reduced from 250 ml to 200 ml, the final stage of the test in pH 6.8 phosphate buffer reduced from 5 to 3 h, the number of tablets in each thimble reduced from three to one, or the prescribed phosphate buffers replaced with phthalate and Tris, respectively.
(10) A thimble-shaped glass frit nebulizer has been developed for atomic spectrometry.
(11) It cannot be hidden by the pea and thimble game played by the Australian government, which claims the offshore detention camps are out of our jurisdiction and in the control of the Papua New Guinean and Nauruan governments.
(12) Nespresso's velvety crema and its darkling thimble of ristretto daily give me the illusion I am a sophisticated continental, living in caffeinated leisure at a pavement cafe where only lovely things – passionate dalliances, superb cakes – are on today's menu.
(13) Two thimble chambers calibrated by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology provide calibration traceability of iridium-192 HDR sources and re-entrant chambers to a primary national standards laboratory.
(14) The total effects of the cavity displacement and the perturbation of the field by the cavity in thimble-chamber measurements of absorbed dose were investigated for electron beams of energy 15, 20, 30, and 39 MeV and for 60CO gamma radiation by LiF dosimeter rods of diameter 1 mm and length 6 mm.
(15) It was found that relative signal distributions from the shielded semiconductor detector agreed, within 1 per cent of the maximum signal, to the depth dose curves and that the relative signal in profile distributions also agreed, within 1 mm or 1 per cent of the signal at the central axis, as compared with dose measurements with a cylindrical, thimble ionization chamber.
(16) The cervical cap--a small, rubber, thimble-shaped barrier contraceptive--fits tightly across the cervix and prevents sperm from entering the uterus.
(17) The rate of temperature changes was studied in a nylon thimble chamber provided with a temperature sensor, when the chamber was inserted in different phantom media.
(18) An air kerma rate is measured using a calibrated thimble chamber in an "in-air" calibration jig.
(19) The thimble glass frit was pressurized internally by gases such as helium (He) or argon (Ar) while the test solution was applied externally to the frit.
(20) At the café table, at the bar, they order a thimble-sized espresso.