Meaning of witch's stirrup | Babel Free

Definitions

A tangle in a horse's mane.

uncommon

Examples

“[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.”

“[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[…]”

“... 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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