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Stirrup

(A). A rope to climb by. (Anglo-Saxon,. sti'g-ra'p, a climbing rope. The verb sti'g-an is to climb, to mount.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894

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