Spur Meaning in Spanish
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• Spur
Definition & Meaning
- (n.) The track of an animal, as an otter; a spoor.
- (n.) A branch of a vein.
- (n.) A wall that crosses a part of a rampart and joins to an inner wall.
- (n.) A sparrow.
- (n.) One of the large or principal roots of a tree.
- (n.) Any stiff, sharp spine, as on the wings and legs of certain burds, on the legs of insects, etc.; especially, the spine on a cocks leg.
- (n.) An implement secured to the heel, or above the heel, of a horseman, to urge the horse by its pressure. Modern spurs have a small wheel, or rowel, with short points. Spurs were the badge of knighthood.
- (n.) A curved piece of timber serving as a half to support the deck where a whole beam can not be placed.
- (n.) A brace strengthening a post and some connected part, as a rafter or crossbeam; a strut.
- (v. t.) To prick with spurs; to incite to a more hasty pace; to urge or goad; as, to spur a horse.
- (n.) Any projecting appendage of a flower looking like a spur.
- (n.) A mountain that shoots from any other mountain, or range of mountains, and extends to some distance in a lateral direction, or at right angles.
- (v. i.) To spur on one horse; to travel with great expedition; to hasten; hence, to press forward in any pursuit.
- (n.) That which goads to action; an incitement.
- (v. t.) To put spurs on; as, a spurred boot.
- (n.) The short wooden buttress of a post.
- (n.) A tern.
- (n.) A piece of timber fixed on the bilge ways before launching, having the upper ends bolted to the vessels side.
- (n.) A projection from the round base of a column, occupying the angle of a square plinth upon which the base rests, or bringing the bottom bed of the base to a nearly square form. It is generally carved in leafage.
- (n.) Ergotized rye or other grain.
- (n.) Something that projects; a snag.
- (n.) A spiked iron worn by seamen upon the bottom of the boot, to enable them to stand upon the carcass of a whale, to strip off the blubber.
- (v. t.) To urge or encourage to action, or to a more vigorous pursuit of an object; to incite; to stimulate; to instigate; to impel; to drive.
• Spur-royal
Definition & Meaning
- (n.) A gold coin, first made in the reign of Edward IV., having a star on the reverse resembling the rowel of a spur. In the reigns of Elizabeth and of James I., its value was fifteen shillings.
• Spur-shell
Definition & Meaning
- (n.) Any one of several species of handsome gastropod shells of the genus Trochus, or Imperator. The shell is conical, with the margin toothed somewhat like the rowel of a spur.
• Spur-winged
Definition & Meaning
- (a.) Having one or more spurs on the bend of the wings.
• Spurgall
Definition & Meaning
- (v. t.) To gall or wound with a spur.
- (n.) A place galled or excoriated by much using of the spur.
• Spurge
Definition & Meaning
- (n.) Any plant of the genus Euphorbia. See Euphorbia.
- (v. t.) To emit foam; to froth; -- said of the emission of yeast from beer in course of fermentation.
• Spurgewort
Definition & Meaning
- (n.) Any euphorbiaceous plant.
• Spurging
Definition & Meaning
- (n.) A purging.
• Spurious
Definition & Meaning
- (a.) Not proceeding from the true source, or from the source pretended; not genuine; false; adulterate.
- (a.) Not legitimate; bastard; as, spurious issue.
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