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 “Stir Up” Sunday.Stirrup Cup. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
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.)   1
 


 “Stir Up” Sunday.Stirrup Cup. 

 
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