staffare

Meaning

1. (transitive) to connect, clamp or shore up with brackets
2. (transitive) to block the movement of (a railroad/railway car) with a bracket on the tracks
3. (intransitive, uncommon) to lose one's stirrups
4. (intransitive, uncommon) to take one's feet out of the stirrup or stirrups

Hyphenated as

staf‧fà‧re

Pronounced as (IPA)

/stafˈfa.re/

Etymology

From staffa (“stirrup”) + -are.