Stirrup or stirrup ( one word ) means a device suspended from a horse's saddle, used to support the rider's foot --
He'll have trouble dismounting with a broken stirrup.
Put your foot in the stirrup, like this.
Stir up or stir up ( two words ) means to instigate, to agitate, literally or figuratively --
Try not to stir up the mud from the bottom of the pond.
He just wants to stir up old quarrels.
Now that you know that, you can say --
"He didn't get one foot in the stirrup before he tried to stir up trouble with the other riders."
Note--"stirps" means a line or branch of a family --
"This stirps begins with a female ancestor who emigrated from Russia."
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