jocular. [Cf. STIRRUP-LEATHER b.] (See quots.)
1679. Coles, Eng.-Lat. Dict. (ed. 2), To give one some Stirrup-oyl, aliquem fustigare.
1825. Hone, Every-day Bk., I. 411. They send to a cobbler’s for a pennyworth of the best ‘stirrup-oil.’
1854. Miss Baker, Northampt. Gloss., s.v. One of the old jokes practised on the 1st of April is the sending a raw lad to a saddler’s or cobler’s for a ‘penn’orth of stirrup-oil,’ when he is termed an April fool, and his ignorance enlightened by the application of a stirrup-leather across his shoulders.
