Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word SPUR

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Definitions of SPUR

1. 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.
2. A jab given with the spurs.
3. An appendage or spike pointing rearward, near the foot, for instance that of a rooster.
4. Any protruding part connected at one end, for instance a highway that extends from another highway into a city.
5. Roots, tree roots.
6. 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.
7. Ergotized rye or other grain.
8. A wall in a fortification that crosses a part of a rampart and joins to an inner wall.
9. A tern.
10. The track of an animal, such as an otter; a spoor.
11. (figurative) Anything that inspires or motivates, as a spur does a horse.
12. (geology) A mountain that shoots from another mountain or range and extends some distance in a lateral direction, or at right angles.
13. (carpentry) A brace strengthening a post and some connected part, such as a rafter or crossbeam; a strut.
14. (architecture) The short wooden buttress of a post.
15. (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 generally carved in leafage.
16. (shipbuilding) A piece of timber fixed on the bilgeways before launching, having the upper ends bolted to the vessel's side.
17. (shipbuilding) A curved piece of timber serving as a half to support the deck where a whole beam cannot be placed.
18. (mining) A branch of a vein.
19. (rail transport) A very short branch line of a railway line.
20. (transport) A short branch road of a motorway, freeway or major road.
21. (botany) A short thin side shoot from a branch, especially one that bears fruit or, in conifers, the shoots that bear the leaves.
22. (transitive) To prod (especially a horse) on the side or flank, with the intent to urge motion or haste, to gig.
23. (transitive) To urge or encourage to action, or to a more vigorous pursuit of an object
24. (transitive) To put spurs on.
25. (intransitive) To press forward; to travel in great haste.
26. To form a spur (senses 17-18 of the noun)
27. (electronics) A spurious tone, one that interferes with a signal in a circuit and is often masked underneath that signal.
28. (obsolete, dialectal) Alternative form of speer..
29. A occupational surname from Middle English
30. (soccer) someone connected with Tottenham Hotspur FC, as a fan, player, coach etc.

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