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Quotation dates: 1420, 1497-1585, 1637-1695
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Sterap leddir, Stirrep ledder, n. Also: sterrop-, sterrep-, -op-, stirap-, -ep-, stirrop-, -up-, styrop-, stirp-, strip(t)- and -leder, -ledre, -lethir(e, -er, -lather, -leather. [ME and e.m.E. stirhap lethir (1394-5), styrop lethre (14th c.), stirrop lethyr (1470); Sterap(e n.] A stirrup leather, the strap by which a stirrup iron hangs from the saddle.(a) c1420 Wynt. ix 1575.
And wyth a swake thare off his swerd The sterap lethire [C. steraplethir] and the bute Thre ply or foure, abone the fute He straik the Lyndesay to the bane 1497 Treasurer's Accounts I 342.
For ane par of sterap ledderis … xviij d. 1501 Treasurer's Accounts II 27.
For tua pair of double sterap ledderis, viij s. 1503 Treasurer's Accounts II 206.
For ane pair of sterap ledderis with irnis, iiij s. vj d. 1503 Treasurer's Accounts II 219.
i pair double sterap ledderis, … covirit with satin crammesy 1507–8 Treasurer's Accounts IV 94.
To Johne Lethane, sadillar, for mending of sadilles, … sterap ledderis, halk luris [etc.] 1508 Treasurer's Accounts IV 129.
For graithing of the kingis sterap leddir, half wellus half clath of gold 1511 Treasurer's Accounts IV 225.
j pair singill sterop ledderis, price xviij d. 1522 Dunferm. B. Rec. I 209.
Ane sadill bridill witht sterrop ledderis 1534 Treasurer's Accounts VI 198.
Reknit with … sadillar, for sadillis, bridillis, sterrepledderis, … styrrep irnis [etc.](b) 1503 Cal. Doc. IV 344.
[For the Queen of Scots' pair of] styrops and styrop ledres for hir botell horse 1538 Treasurer's Accounts VII 10.
For ane quhit pair of stirap ledderis, xij s. vj d. 1545 Treasurer's Accounts VIII 410.
Stirrep ledderris 1549 Treasurer's Accounts IX 331.
To Jhonne Hammiltoun, maister of stabill … to by stirrep ledderis, collar gyrthis and other necessares, xxxviij s. 1565–6 Treasurer's Accounts XI 459.
To Robert Abircrummy, saidlar, v elnis of fyne blak weluote to be harnesing and stirrep ledderis to ane fute mantill 1585 Edinburgh Testaments XV 23.
Stirrop ledderis 1639 Maxwell Mem. II 273.
Yow must cause bye stirep latheris and irins 1661 Acts VII 253/2.
Stirrop lethers 1674 Cunningham Diary 35.
A pair stirrup leathers 12 s.(c) 1695 Foulis Acc. Bk. 183 (see Sterap(e n. 1 (e)).
Stirpleathers(d) 1637 Elphinstone Mun. 194/1.
Ane pair blak welvat stript ledderis 1690 Foulis Acc. Bk. 124.
To Hugh Morisone, sadler, for … strip leathers and ironsattrib. 1653 Urquhart Rabelais i xxxv.
He most nimbly … shifting his feet in the stirrup, performed the stirrup leather feat 1676 Cunningham Diary 72.
For my stirrup-leather mending, £1 12 s.
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