n. A pair of stirrup-leathers, with stirrups, joined at the top in a sort of leather buckle, by which they are made fast to the pommel of the saddle.n. In hydraulic engineering, a dredging or water-raising machine, consisting of a chain provided with buckets or with pallets traversing in a trough.n. A metallic chuck or bonnet for holding one end of a cannon in the turning-lathe.n. In founding, a device for holding the core of a mold in position; a grain; specifically, a mass of wrought-iron with projecting arms, used to center the core-barrel in making gun-castings, with the muzzle downward, when the Rodman method of cooling is employed.n. Also chaplet, chapellet.