Spur | |
1. n. (soccer) someone connected with Tottenham Hotspur FC, as a fan, player, coach etc. | |
2. n. 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. | |
3. n. Anything that inspires or motivates, as a spur does to a horse. | |
4. n. An appendage or spike pointing rearward, near the foot, for instance that of a rooster. | |
5. n. Any protruding part connected at one end, for instance a highway that extends from another highway into a city. | |
6. n. Roots, tree roots. | |
7. n. A mountain that shoots from another mountain or range and extends some distance in a lateral direction, or at right angles. | |
8. n. 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. | |
9. n. (carpentry) A brace strengthening a post and some connected part, such as a rafter or crossbeam; a strut. | |
10. n. (architecture) The short wooden buttress of a post. | |
11. n. (architecture) 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 gen | |
12. n. Ergotized rye or other grain. | |
13. n. A wall in a fortification that crosses a part of a rampart and joins to an inner wall. | |
14. n. (shipbuilding) A piece of timber fixed on the bilgeways before launching, having the upper ends bolted to the vessel's side. | |
15. n. (shipbuilding) A curved piece of timber serving as a half to support the deck where a whole beam cannot be placed. | |
16. n. (mining) A branch of a vein. | |
17. v. To prod (especially a horse) on the side or flank, with the intent to urge motion or haste, to gig. | |
18. v. To urge or encourage to action, or to a more vigorous pursuit of an object | |
19. v. To put spurs on | |
to spur boots - | |
20. n. A tern. | |
21. n. (electronics) A spurious tone, one that interferes with a signal in a circuit and is often masked underneath that signal. | |
22. n. The track of an animal, such as an otter; a spoor. | |
23. v. (obsolete, dialectal) alternative form of speer. | |