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[ US /ˈspɝ/ ]
[ UK /spˈɜː/ ]
NOUN
  1. a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something
    the ceaseless prodding got on his nerves
  2. 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
  3. any sharply pointed projection
  4. a railway line connected to a trunk line
  5. tubular extension at the base of the corolla in some flowers
VERB
  1. give heart or courage to
  2. goad with spurs
    the rider spurred his horse
  3. incite or stimulate
    The Academy was formed to spur research
  4. strike with a spur
  5. equip with spurs
    spur horses

How To Use spur In A Sentence

  • The exchange continued for a little over a year, until both men became absorbed in other projects, but while it lasted, Mr. Neumeyer says, "we were both sparked into spurts of vivifying and shared creativity. Gorey's Flights of Fancy
  • Try poppies, cornflowers, stocks, love-in-a-mist, cosmos, mignonette, larkspur, honesty, ox-eye daisies, marigolds, phlox, sunflowers, zinnias - whatever takes your fancy.
  • Instead of being crushed at once, as perhaps the writer expected, it darted forward, quite briskly and cheerfully, at six or seven miles an hour; requiring no spur or admonitive to haste, except the shrieking of the little Egyptian _gamin_, who ran along by asinus's side. "[ Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men.
  • Hotspur is an uncommon man, whose uncommonness is unsupported by his father at a critical moment. William Shakespeare
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  • Flakes with concavities exhibiting steep, unifacial retouch were used to whittle or plane wood, and flakes displaying spurs were used to incise bone or antler.
  • Option 1 is to connect the supply cable as a spur to an existing loop-in ceiling rose or junction box.
  • The noise pollution survey revealed a rather spurring and possibly amusing old fashioned source of noise.
  • Mom also feels spurred on by the thought that someday Charlie will become aware of her career.
  • Radiographs of the fingertips of rock climbers, for example, show unusual bony spurs and thickened phalanges.
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