spur

spur is a 4-letter English word with 31 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A sparrow. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 8 · 31 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A sparrow.
2. noun. A tern.
3. noun. 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.
4. noun. That which goads to action; an incitement.
5. noun. Something that projects; a snag.
6. noun. One of the large or principal roots of a tree.
7. noun. 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.
8. noun. 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.
9. noun. 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.
10. noun. A brace strengthening a post and some connected part, as a rafter or crossbeam; a strut.
11. noun. The short wooden buttress of a post.
12. noun. 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.
13. noun. Any projecting appendage of a flower looking like a spur.
14. noun. Ergotized rye or other grain.
15. noun. A wall that crosses a part of a rampart and joins to an inner wall.
16. noun. A piece of timber fixed on the bilge ways before launching, having the upper ends bolted to the vessel's side.
17. noun. A curved piece of timber serving as a half to support the deck where a whole beam can not be placed.
18. transitive verb. To prick with spurs; to incite to a more hasty pace; to urge or goad; as, to spur a horse.
19. transitive verb. 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.
20. transitive verb. To put spurs on; as, a spurred boot.
21. intransitive verb. To spur on one' horse; to travel with great expedition; to hasten; hence, to press forward in any pursuit.
22. noun. a railway line connected to a trunk line
23. noun. a sharp prod fixed to a rider's heel and used to urge a horse onward

    "cowboys know not to squat with their spurs on"

    Synonyms: gad

24. noun. a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something

    "the ceaseless prodding got on his nerves"

    Synonyms: goad, goading, prod, prodding, spurring, urging

25. noun. tubular extension at the base of the corolla in some flowers
26. noun. any sharply pointed projection

    Synonyms: acantha, spine

27. verb. goad with spurs

    "the rider spurred his horse"

28. verb. equip with spurs

    "spur horses"

29. verb. strike with a spur
30. verb. give heart or courage to

    Synonyms: goad

31. verb. incite or stimulate

    "The Academy was formed to spur research"

Synonyms

gad, goad, goading, prod, prodding, spurring, urging, acantha, spine

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in spur:

purs, supr, urps

Common word forms

spurs, spurred, spurrer, spurless, spurring

Words from these letters

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