Spur Synonyms & Definitions

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• SpurDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (n.) The track of an animal, as an otter; a spoor.
2. (n.) A branch of a vein.
3. (n.) A wall that crosses a part of a rampart and joins to an inner wall.
4. (n.) A sparrow.
5. (n.) One of the large or principal roots of a tree.
6. (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.
7. (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.
8. (n.) A curved piece of timber serving as a half to support the deck where a whole beam can not be placed.
9. (n.) A brace strengthening a post and some connected part, as a rafter or crossbeam; a strut.
10. (v. t.) To prick with spurs; to incite to a more hasty pace; to urge or goad; as, to spur a horse.
11. (n.) Any projecting appendage of a flower looking like a spur.
12. (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.
13. (v. i.) To spur on one horse; to travel with great expedition; to hasten; hence, to press forward in any pursuit.
14. (n.) That which goads to action; an incitement.
15. (v. t.) To put spurs on; as, a spurred boot.
16. (n.) The short wooden buttress of a post.
17. (n.) A tern.
18. (n.) A piece of timber fixed on the bilge ways before launching, having the upper ends bolted to the vessels side.
19. (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.
20. (n.) Ergotized rye or other grain.
21. (n.) Something that projects; a snag.
22. (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.
23. (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-shellDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (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.