Spur

What do we mean by spur?

A short spike or spiked wheel that attaches to the heel of a rider's boot and is used to urge a horse forward. noun

An incentive. noun

A spurlike attachment or projection, as. noun

A spinelike process on the leg of some birds. noun

A climbing iron; a crampon. noun

A gaff attached to the leg of a gamecock. noun

A short or stunted branch of a tree. noun

A bony outgrowth or protuberance. noun

A lateral ridge projecting from a mountain or mountain range. noun

An oblique reinforcing prop or stay of timber or masonry. noun

A tubular or saclike extension of the corolla or calyx of a flower, as in a columbine or larkspur. noun

An ergot growing on rye. noun

A spur track. noun

To urge (a horse) on by the use of spurs. intransitive verb

To incite or stimulate. intransitive verb

To ride quickly by spurring a horse. intransitive verb

A pointed instrument worn on the heel by a horseman to goad the horse. noun

Anything which goads, impels, or urges to action; incitement; instigation; incentive; stimulus: used in this sense in the phrase on or upon the spur of the moment—that is, on a momentary impulse; suddenly; hastily; impromptu. noun

Some projecting thing more or less closely resembling a horseman's spur in form or position. noun

Plural Short small twigs projecting a few inches from the trunk. noun

A rigid implement, often roughly y-shaped, that is fixed to one's heel for the purpose of prodding a horse. Often worn by, and emblematic of, the cowboy or the knight.

A jab given with the spurs.

Anything that inspires or motivates, as a spur does a horse.

An appendage or spike pointing rearward, near the foot, for instance that of a rooster.

Any protruding part connected at one end, for instance a highway that extends from another highway into a city.

Roots, tree roots.

A mountain that shoots from another mountain or range and extends some distance in a lateral direction, or at right angles.

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.

A brace strengthening a post and some connected part, such as a rafter or crossbeam; a strut.

The short wooden buttress of a post.

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.

Ergotized rye or other grain.

A wall in a fortification that crosses a part of a rampart and joins to an inner wall.

A piece of timber fixed on the bilgeways before launching, having the upper ends bolted to the vessel's side.

A curved piece of timber serving as a half to support the deck where a whole beam cannot be placed.

A branch of a vein.

A very short branch line of a railway line.

A short thin side shoot from a branch, especially one that bears fruit or, in conifers, the shoots that bear the leaves.

Words that are spelled similarly to spur:
spur.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word spur:
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Words that rhyme with spur:
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Adjectives that are often used to describe spur:
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Nouns that are often described by the adjective spur:
wheel, moment, wheels, gears, gear, marks, gearing, fowl, leathers, rowel, rowels, dikes, type, leather, pruning, themoment, walls, formation, line, cells, tracks, money, shores, track, dog, winged, drive, maker, bit, straps, lines, street, roll, blight, shoots, thorn, post, syndrome, makers, chains, band, rials, plate, whang, wing, ends, leg, strap, shoot, royals, burst, stroke, pinions, plates, teeth, wall, pinion, reactions, decision, geared, formations, drives, thigh, wings, bow, buckles, sort, steel, camp, winner, mark, fire, wisdom, ryal, thrust, shore, reduction, bearing, mountain, bands, knoll, supporters, shank, cell, inches, ridge, valley, sis, ridges, branches, stones, hills, dike.

Consonant match to spur:
spa, spy, spey, spaw, spurr, spie, spaugh.

Words that sound like spur:
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