Dictionary Entry
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
- 1noun
A sparrow.
- 2noun
A tern.
- 3noun
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.
- 4noun
That which goads to action; an incitement.
- 5noun
Something that projects; a snag.
- 6noun
One of the large or principal roots of a tree.
- 7noun
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.
- 8noun
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.
- 9noun
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.
- 10noun
A brace strengthening a post and some connected part, as a rafter or crossbeam; a strut.
- 11noun
The short wooden buttress of a post.
- 12noun
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.
- 13noun
Any projecting appendage of a flower looking like a spur.
- 14noun
Ergotized rye or other grain.
- 15noun
A wall that crosses a part of a rampart and joins to an inner wall.
- 16noun
A piece of timber fixed on the bilge ways before launching, having the upper ends bolted to the vessel's side.
- 17noun
A curved piece of timber serving as a half to support the deck where a whole beam can not be placed.
- 18transitive verb
To prick with spurs; to incite to a more hasty pace; to urge or goad; as, to spur a horse.
- 19transitive 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.
- 20transitive verb
To put spurs on; as, a spurred boot.
- 21intransitive verb
To spur on one' horse; to travel with great expedition; to hasten; hence, to press forward in any pursuit.
- 22noun
a railway line connected to a trunk line
- 23noun
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
- 24noun
a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something
"the ceaseless prodding got on his nerves"
- 25noun
tubular extension at the base of the corolla in some flowers
- 26noun
any sharply pointed projection
- 27verb
goad with spurs
"the rider spurred his horse"
- 28verb
equip with spurs
"spur horses"
- 29verb
strike with a spur
- 30verb
give heart or courage to
Synonyms
- 31verb
incite or stimulate
"The Academy was formed to spur research"
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