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spur

Length / number of characters: 4
Number of words: 1

  • any sharply pointed projection
  • a railway line connected to a trunk line
  • a sharp prod fixed to a rider´s heel and used to urge a horse onward
  • a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something
  • give heart or courage to
  • A tern
  • tubular extension at the base of the corolla in some flowers
  • incite or stimulate
  • strike with a spur
  • goad with spurs
  • equip with spurs
  • A sparrow
  • 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
  • Something that projects
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • To prick with spurs
  • To urge or encourage to action, or to a more vigorous pursuit of an object
  • To put spurs on
  • To spur on one´ horse
  • Residential area (city, town, village) in Philippines in Caloocan
  • Residential area (city, town, village) in the United States of America (USA) in South Carolina
  • Residential area (city, town, village) in the United States of America (USA) in Texas

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