Spur is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SPUR in dictionary:

VERB:
• give an incentive or encouragement to (someone)
• promote the development of; stimulate
• prune in (a side shoot of a plant) so as to form a spur close to the stem
• To prick with spurs; to incite to a more hasty pace; to urge or goad; as, to spur a horse.
• To urge or encourage to action, or to a more vigorous pursuit of an object; to incite; to stimulate; to instigate; to impel; to drive.
• To put spurs on; as, a spurred boot.
• To spur on one\' horse; to travel with great expedition; to hasten; hence, to press forward in any pursuit.
• incite or stimulate
• give heart or courage to
• strike with a spur
• goad with spurs
• equip with spurs
• urge on, incite (someone)
• urge (a horse) forward by digging one's spurs into its sides
NOUN:
• a horny spike on the back of the leg of a cock or male game bird, used in fighting.
• a steel point fastened to the leg of a gamecock.
• a thing that prompts or encourages someone; an incentive
• a projection from a mountain or mountain range
• a short branch road or railway line.
• a slender tubular projection from the base of a flower, e.g. a honeysuckle or orchid, typically containing nectar.
• a short fruit-bearing side shoot.
• a short pointed growth or process on a part of the body.
• a small, single-pointed support for ceramic ware in a kiln.
• stimulus or incentive
• A sparrow.
• A tern.
• An implement secured to the heel, or above the heel, of a horseman, to urge the horse by its pressure. Modern spurs have a small wheel, or rowel, with short points. Spurs were the badge of knighthood.
• That which goads to action; an incitement.
• Something that projects; a snag.
• One of the large or principal roots of a tree.
• Any stiff, sharp spine, as on the wings and legs of certain burds, on the legs of insects, etc.; especially, the spine on a cock\'s leg.
• A mountain that shoots from any other mountain, or range of mountains, and extends to 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, 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.
• Any projecting appendage of a flower looking like a spur.
• Ergotized rye or other grain.
• A wall that crosses a part of a rampart and joins to an inner wall.
• A piece of timber fixed on the bilge ways 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 can not be placed.
• a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something
• any sharply pointed projection
• tubular extension at the base of the corolla in some flowers
• a sharp prod fixed to a rider\'s heel and used to urge a horse onward
• a railway line connected to a trunk line
• a device with a small spike or a spiked wheel that is worn on a rider's heel and used for urging a horse forward.

Words related to SPUR

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Words that contain SPUR

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How to use SPUR in a sentence

• Crossing a second spur of the tableland, descended to a small creek with waterholes and narrow grassy flats, the general character of the country being very poor and scrubby.
• Then, to spur Harley to action, came the thought that Sir Charles Abingdon had appealed to him for aid.
• The observatory at Avu, in Borneo, stands on the spur of the mountain.
• It is another addition to the value of money and of course another spur to industry.
• They contained a large number of men who do things on the spur of the moment, the born seekers after adventure, men to whom war had its attractions.
• I determined on the spur of the moment to leave my carriage, my daughter, and Mr.
• And in this matter he had arguments which his uncle could hardly answer on the spur of the moment.
• The most prominent of the former are the Chivre spur on the right bank and Sermoise spur on the left.
• Still unsatisfied, Gautama next retired to the jungle of Uruvela, on the most northerly spur of the Viadhya range of mountains, near the present temple of Buddha Gaya.
• From the first days of the marriage, Brigitte subdued the unfortunate Madame Thuillier with a touch of the spur and a jerk of the bit, both of which she made her feel severely.
• There was a force of inertia in the officials which resisted his efforts to spur them on to an enterprise which they believed to be doomed to failure.
• He had been married a year or more when, one afternoon, he was compelled to ride down to Gullettsville under whip and spur for a doctor.
• Dissatisfaction or discontent is not always necessary to spur one on to added powers and responsibilities.
• He has measured himself with boys, he knows their code and feels the spur of their ideals of achievement.
• And than this there was no spur that could have driven more relentlessly in his purpose, since to save her was in his eyes almost as momentous as to avenge the past.
• But, dear friend, you certainly do ask too much, to have all this done in such a hurry, entirely on the spur of the moment.
• Below the ankle they closely clasped a boot which was armed with a very severe spur.
• One of the hunters picked his way down the rock wall while Hotenfa and I circled the top of the spur.
• Jones must have expected such a move, for he fastened his rope to a spur of rock.
• But his poetry never became a spur to national achievement like the verse of Arndt, that other German poet-professor.
• The empty-stomach theory of creation is a cruel fallacy, though undoubtedly hunger has sometimes been the spur which the clear soul doth raise.
• Competition can never wholly be set aside, since within reasonable limits it is the spur of invention and a part of evolution itself.

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