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Spelling: [spurd]

IPA: /spɜrd/

Spurred is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 142 anagrams from letters in spurred (deprrsu).

Definitions for spurred

noun

1. a U -shaped device that slips over and straps to the heel of a boot and has a blunt, pointed, or roweled projection at the back for use by a mounted rider to urge a horse forward.
2. anything that goads, impels, or urges, as to action, speed, or achievement.
3. climbing iron.
4. Ornithology. a stiff, usually sharp, horny process on the leg of various birds, especially the domestic rooster, or on the bend of the wing, as in jacanas and screamers.
5. Pathology. a bony projection or exostosis.
6. a sharp piercing or cutting instrument fastened to the leg of a gamecock in cockfighting; gaff.
7. Physical Geography. a ridge or line of elevation projecting from or subordinate to the main body of a mountain or mountain range.
8. something that projects and resembles or suggests a gaff; sharp projection.
9. a short or stunted branch or shoot, as of a tree.
10. Typography. a short, seriflike projection from the bottom of the short vertical stroke in the capital G in some fonts.
11. wing dam.
12. Botany. a slender, usually hollow, projection from some part of a flower, as from the calyx of the larkspur or the corolla of the violet. Also called spur shoot. a short shoot bearing flowers, as in fruit trees.
13. Architecture. a short wooden brace, usually temporary, for strengthening a post or some other part. any offset from a wall, as a buttress. griffe2 .
14. Ceramics. a triangular support of refractory clay for an object being fired.
15. Railroads. spur track.

Idioms

1. on the spur of the moment, without deliberation; impulsively; suddenly:
2. win one's spurs, to achieve distinction or success for the first time; prove one's ability or worth:

adjective

1. having a spur or spurs.
2. bearing spurs or spurlike spines.

verb (used with object)

1. to prick with or as if with a spur or spurs; incite or urge on:
2. to strike or wound with the spur, as a gamecock.
3. to furnish with spurs or a spur.

verb (used without object)

1. to goad or urge one's horse with spurs or a spur; ride quickly.
2. to proceed hurriedly; press forward:

Origin of spurred

Middle English word dating back to 1350-1400; See origin at spur¹, -ed³

Examples for spurred

Then he spurred his horse forward and said no more to Stutely.

Another instant and his own mustang was spurred in close by the strugglers.

But at the same time, our massive economic inequality has spurred very little serious and visible thinking about alternatives.

That action ignited protests that rocked Wisconsin and spurred a recall—only the second recall of a governor in U.S. history.

The Republicans, spurred on by the Tea Party, have taken the approach that they will oppose anything proposed by the President.

He leaned over the saddle and spurred the pinto into his racing gait.

But what spurred him to action was a Washington Post study of the post-9/11 veteran population.

Only the emergency could have spurred him to the point of so outrageous an impertinence.

Anger about Citizens United has spurred a movement to amend the Constitution to reverse the opinion.

Dick, spurred by impulse, left his alcove and entered the room.