spur
Definitions
- An occupational surname from Middle English
- someone connected with Tottenham Hotspur FC, as a fan, player, coach etc.
- 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 tern.
- A spurious tone, one that interferes with a signal in a circuit and is often masked underneath that signal.
- The track of an animal, such as an otter; a spoor.
- 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 branch road of a motorway, freeway or major road.
- A short thin side shoot from a branch, especially one that bears fruit or, in conifers, the shoots that bear the leaves.
Equivalents
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Българскиследа́
བོད་སྐད།རྟིང་ལྕགས
Danskspore
Eestikannus
فارسیمهمیز
हिन्दीएड़
Magyarsarkantyú
Íslenskaspori
Italianocimadiramazionedivaricazionegugliaincitareincoraggiareinstigaremontare gli speronipiccopinnacolopizzoprotuberanzapungolaresperonesporgenzaspronarespronospuntonespunzonestimolarevetta
Қазақ тілітепкі
ភាសាខ្មែរក្រចាប់
Te Reo Māorikipa
Македонскимамуза
Монголтүлхэц
Slovenčinaostroha
ไทยเดือย
Tagalogtahid
Tiếng Việtcua
Examples
“Lives he, good uncle? thrice within this hour I saw⟳ him down; thrice up again, and fighting; From helmet to the spur all blood he was.”
“Tvvo ſorts of ſpurs ſeem to have⟳ been in uſe about the time of the Conqueſt, one called a pryck, having only a ſingle point⟳ like⟳ the gaffle of a fighting cock; the other conſiſting of a number⟳ of points of a conſiderable length, radiating from and revolving on a center, thence named the rouelle or vvheel ſpur.”
“I had hardly said the word, when Kit jumped into the saddle, and gave his horse a whip and a spur — and off it cantered, as if it were in as great a hurry⟳ to be married as Kit himself.”
“She is a theame of honour and renowne, / A ſpurre to valiant and magnanimous deeds, / Whoſe preſent courage may beate downe our foes, / And fame in time to come⟳ canonize us, [...]”
“[…] the strong-bas'd promontory / Have⟳ I made shake⟳; and by the spurs pluck'd up / The pine and cedar […]”
“I do note⟳ / That grief and patience, rooted in them both, / Mingle their spurs together.”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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