Definition of spur

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Spur (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..

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Spurred :: Spurred (a.) Wearing spurs; furnished with a spur or spurs; having shoots like spurs.
Irreptitious :: Irreptitious (a.) Surreptitious; spurious.
Spurred :: Spur (n.) A curved piece of timber serving as a half to support the deck where a whole beam can not be placed.
Spurging :: Spurgewort (n.) Any euphorbiaceous plant.
Spurred :: Spurn-water (n.) A channel at the end of a deck to restrain the water.
Spurious :: Spurious (a.) Not proceeding from the true source, or from the source pretended; not genuine; false; adulterate..
Extempore :: Extempore (adv.) Without previous study or meditation; without preparation; on the spur of the moment; suddenly; extemporaneously; as, to write or speak extempore..
Tithymal :: Tithymal (n.) Any kind of spurge, esp. Euphorbia Cyparissias..
Spurge :: Spurge (v. t.) To emit foam; to froth; -- said of the emission of yeast from beer in course of fermentation.
Dispurpose :: Dispurpose (v. t.) To dissuade; to frustrate; as, to dispurpose plots..
Calcarated :: Calcarated (a.) Armed with a spur.
Solubility :: Solubility (n.) The tendency to separate readily into parts by spurious articulations, as the pods of tick trefoil..
Gaffle :: Gaffle (n.) An artificial spur or gaff for gamecocks.
Sprit :: Sprit (v. i.) To throw out with force from a narrow orifice; to eject; to spurt out.
Bespirt :: Bespirt (v. t.) Same as Bespurt.
Hotspurred :: Hotspurred (a.) Violent; impetuous; headstrong.
Spur :: Spur (n.) One of the large or principal roots of a tree.
Spur :: Spur (n.) A brace strengthening a post and some connected part, as a rafter or crossbeam; a strut..
Unarmed :: Unarmed (a.) Having no hard and sharp projections, as spines, prickles, spurs, claws, etc..
Follicle :: Follicle (n.) A simple podlike pericarp which contains several seeds and opens along the inner or ventral suture, as in the peony, larkspur and milkweed..
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