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Stirrup-Oil

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A beating; a variety of “strap oil” (q.v.). The French De lʹhuile de cotret (faggot or stick oil).

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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