Definition of spur

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Spur (n.) The short wooden buttress of a post.

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Sourt :: Spurt (v. t.) To throw out, as a liquid, in a stream or jet; to drive or force out with violence, as a liquid from a pipe or small orifice; as, to spurt water from the mouth..
Spur :: 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..
Spurted :: Spurt (n.) A sudden and energetic effort, as in an emergency; an increased exertion for a brief space..
Euphorbia :: Euphorbia (n.) Spurge, or bastard spurge, a genus of plants of many species, mostly shrubby, herbaceous succulents, affording an acrid, milky juice. Some of them are armed with thorns. Most of them yield powerful emetic and cathartic products..
Sput :: Spur-winged (a.) Having one or more spurs on the bend of the wings.
Sprit :: Sprit (v. i.) To throw out with force from a narrow orifice; to eject; to spurt out.
Bastardly :: Bastardly (a.) Bastardlike; baseborn; spurious; corrupt.
Pricker :: Pricker (n.) One who spurs forward; a light horseman.
Spur :: Spur (v. t.) To put spurs on; as, a spurred boot..
Shin :: Shin (v. i.) To climb a mast, tree, rope, or the like, by embracing it alternately with the arms and legs, without help of steps, spurs, or the like; -- used with up; as, to shin up a mast..
Foist :: Foist (v. t.) To insert surreptitiously, wrongfully, or without warrant; to interpolate; to pass off (something spurious or counterfeit) as genuine, true, or worthy; -- usually followed by in..
Ferret-eye :: Ferret-eye (n.) The spur-winged goose; -- so called from the red circle around the eyes.
Lauriol :: Lauriol (n.) Spurge laurel.
Spurn :: Spurn (n.) Disdainful rejection; contemptuous tratment.
Tampoe :: Tampoe (n.) The edible fruit of an East Indian tree (Baccaurea Malayana) of the Spurge family. It somewhat resembles an apple.
Spurling :: Spurless (a.) Having no spurs.
Calcar :: Calcar (n.) A hollow tube or spur at the base of a petal or corolla.
Rowel :: Rowel (n.) The little wheel of a spur, with sharp points..
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..
Gear :: Gear (n.) A toothed wheel, or cogwheel; as, a spur gear, or a bevel gear; also, toothed wheels, collectively..
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