"witch's stirrup" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: witch's stirrups [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} witch's stirrup (plural witch's stirrups)
  1. (uncommon) A tangle in a horse's mane. Tags: uncommon
    Sense id: en-witch's_stirrup-en-noun-i3LYPRnC Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1890, The Baptist Quarterly Review, page 139:",
          "text": "[He may look with] awe on the witch's stirrup in his colt's mane; but on the whole, the belief in witches has passed utterly away.",
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        {
          "ref": "1922, Bruce Haymond, Borderland Echoes: A West Virginia Story, page 162:",
          "text": "[They might find its] mane was a tangled mass of witch's stirrups; or perhaps run across the two skeletons that old Aunt Sukey had seen one dark, dreary night while she was passing a graveyard, rise from their graves and engage in a furious encounter with[…]",
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        {
          "ref": "1927, Elizabeth Fleming, Gammon and Spinach, page 24:",
          "text": "... and green / Beneath each swiftly flying shoe; / And she will journey far away, / Enchantment at her bridle-rein, / And fall asleep at break of day / With witch's stirrups in her mane.",
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        "A tangle in a horse's mane."
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        "A tangle in a horse's mane."
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