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noun (English)
1. (figurative) Anything that inspires or motivates, as a spur does a horse.Examples: "She is a theame of honour and renowne, / A ſpurre to valiant and magnanimous deeds, / Whoſe preſent courage may beate downe our foes, / And fame in time to come canonize us, [...]"figuratively
2. (geology) A mountain that shoots from another mountain or range and extends some distance in a lateral direction, or at right angles.
3. (carpentry) A brace strengthening a post and some connected part, such as a rafter or crossbeam; a strut.
4. (architecture) The short wooden buttress of a post.
5. (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.
6. (shipbuilding) A piece of timber fixed on the bilgeways before launching, having the upper ends bolted to the vessel's side.
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To prod (especially a horse) on the side or flank, with the intent to urge motion or haste, to gig.Examples: "Draw, archers, draw your arrows to the head! Spur your proud horses hard, and ride in blood; Amaze the welkin with your broken staves!"transitive
2. (transitive) To urge or encourage to action, or to a more vigorous pursuit of an objectExamples: "My desire / (More sharp than filed steel) did spur me forth..."; "But the latest Santa Fe development, while not spurring the Rock Island to any further acceleration, has drawn fire from a totally unexpected quarter."; "What is unbearable, in fact, is the feeling, 13 years after 9/11, that America has been chasing its tail; that, in some whack-a-mole horror show, the quashing of a jihadi enclave here only spurs the sprouting of another there; that the ideology of Al Qaeda is still reverberating through a blocked Arab world whose Sunni-Shia balance (insofar as that went) was upended by the American invasion of Iraq."Synonyms: incite, stimulate, instigate, impel, drive, abet, actuate, goosetransitive
3. (transitive) To put spurs on.Examples: "to spur boots"transitive
4. (intransitive) To press forward; to travel in great haste.intransitive
noun (English)
1. (electronics) A spurious tone, one that interferes with a signal in a circuit and is often masked underneath that signal.
verb (English)
1. (obsolete, dialectal) Alternative form of speer.Examples: "I haue yonder vncouered a faire girle, Ile be ſo bolde as ſpur her, vvhat might a bodie call her name?"; "Are you come, old Maſter? Very good, your Horſe is well ſet up; but ere you part, I'll ride you, and ſpur your Reverend Juſticeſhip ſuch a queſtion, as I ſhall make the ſides of your Reputation bleed, truly I will. Now muſt I play at Bo-peep."; "1638, Thomas Heywood, "The Rape of Lucrece. A true Roman Tragedy", in The Dramatic Works of Thomas Heywood, Vol. V, John Pearson, 1874, pages 230 & 231. Clo[wne]. Fie upon't, never was poore Pompey ſo overlabour'd as I have beene, I thinke I have ſpurd my horſe ſuch a queſtion, that he is ſcarce able to wig or wag his tayle for an anſwere, but my Lady bad me ſpare for no horſe fleſh, and I thinke I have made him runne his race."alt-ofalternativedialectalobsolete
noun (English)
1. (soccer) someone connected with Tottenham Hotspur FC, as a fan, player, coach etc.
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