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Definition of Stirrups

1. stirrup [n] - See also: stirrup

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stirrups

Literary usage of Stirrups

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on Concrete, Plain and Reinforced: Materials, Construction, and by Frederick Winslow Taylor, Sanford Eleazer Thompson, René Feret, William Barnard Fuller, Frank Pape McKibben, Spencer Baird Newberry (1916)
"stirrups should be spaced by equation (33a) or (34a) up to a section where the ... The distance from the support to the point where no stirrups are required ..."

2. Handbook of Building Construction: Data for Architects, Designing and by George Albert Hool, Nathan Clarke Johnson (1920)
"32(i>), stirrups cao be spaced by dividing the triangle with base n and height cm, into ae many The center of gravity of each subdivision will denote the ..."

3. Handbook of Building Construction: Data for Architects, Designing and by George Albert Hool, Nathan Clarke Johnson (1920)
"32(6). stirrups can be spaced by dividing the triangle with base 11 and height MI, into as many equal parts as there are stirrups required, ..."

4. Handbook of Building Construction: Data for Architects, Designing and by George Albert Hool, Nathan Clarke Johnson (1920)
"32(6), stirrups can be spaced by dividing the triangle with base xi and height P-FI, into as many equal parts as there are stirrups required, ..."

5. A Treatise on Concrete, Plain and Reinforced: Materials, Construction, and by Frederick Winslow Taylor, Sanford Eleazer Thompson, René Feret, William Barnard Fuller, Frank Pape McKibben, Spencer Baird Newberry (1909)
"Deformed bars are therefore useful for stirrups to permit larger diameters, although the total quantity of stirrup steel required with a given allowable ..."

6. The Design of Highway Bridges of Steel, Timber and Concrete by Milo Smith Ketchum (1920)
"Stresses in stirrups.—The following analysis is approximate but gives results ... 8, if s' is the spacing of the vertical stirrups the stress in one stirrup ..."

7. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1869)
"If the stirrups be wrong, all the rest being right will bo of little avail.* What is the legitimate use of the stirrups besides enabling us to mount our ..."

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