Definitions for SPUR

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SPUR spur

Spelling: [spur]

IPA: /spɜr/

Spur is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 31 anagrams from letters in SPUR (prsu).

Definitions for SPUR

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.
16. a batch of newly made rag-paper sheets.

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:

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 SPUR

before 900; (noun) Middle English spure, Old English spura; cognate with Old High German sporo, Old Norse spori spur; akin to spurn; (v.) Middle English spuren, deri

Examples for SPUR

David Macy's house stood on the spur of a breezy upland at the end of a road.

“I think I sometimes acted as a spur, even though the spurring was not always wanted or welcome,” she said.

Yet what can I say, for all men know that your valor needs the curb and not the spur.

And for those seeking a quick fix: Studies show that light therapy can spur a mood lift in just several days.

He struck the rivet such a blow that he snapped one shank of his spur short off.

Though it had been meant to spur innovation, she said, “it became obvious that the law was actually working in reverse.”

You gents feed your hosses the spur and leave the thinkin' to me.

How can you think of such funny things on the spur of the moment?

Nonetheless, Zarif said that any U.S. ground presence in Iraq would likely spur opposition.

Instead of suppressing turnout, the law seemed to spur people to go to the polls.