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Spur   /spər/   Listen
Spur

noun
1.
A verbalization that encourages you to attempt something.  Synonyms: goad, goading, prod, prodding, spurring, urging.
2.
Any sharply pointed projection.  Synonyms: acantha, spine.
3.
Tubular extension at the base of the corolla in some flowers.
4.
A sharp prod fixed to a rider's heel and used to urge a horse onward.  Synonym: gad.
5.
A railway line connected to a trunk line.  Synonyms: branch line, spur track.
verb
(past & past part. spurred; pres. part. spurring)
1.
Incite or stimulate.
2.
Give heart or courage to.  Synonym: goad.
3.
Strike with a spur.
4.
Goad with spurs.
5.
Equip with spurs.



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"Spur" Quotes from Famous Books



... airport," Coburn explained, "I bent a pin around the band of a ring I wear. I could let it lie flat when I shook hands. Or I could make it stand out like a spur. I set it with my thumb. I saw Pangalos' eyes, so I had it stand out, and I made a tear in his plastic skin when I shook hands with him. He didn't feel it, of course." He paused. "Did anybody go to the address ...
— The Invaders • William Fitzgerald Jenkins
... and refining on his own feelings, and forced from the natural bias of his disposition by the strangeness of his situation. He seems incapable of deliberate action, and is only hurried into extremities on the spur of the occasion, when he has no time to reflect—as in the scene where he kills Polonius; and, again, where he alters the letters which Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are taking with them to England, purporting his death. At other times, when he ...
— The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III • Various
... little farther on a large crowd indicates further thrills. Presently there is a splash and Charley Chaplin has disappeared into a fountain with two policemen in pursuit. Once while we were motoring we came to a disused railway spur, and were surprised to find a large and fussy engine getting up steam while a crowd blocked the road for some distance. A lady in pink satin was chained to the rails—placed there by the villain, who was smoking cigarettes in the offing, ...
— The Smiling Hill-Top - And Other California Sketches • Julia M. Sloane
... the mine, taken by Tommy and his chum crossed a network of tracks, led up to the weigh-house and so on into the breaker. As they came to a line of empty cars standing on a spur they heard a movement in one of the empties ...
— Boy Scouts in the Coal Caverns • Major Archibald Lee Fletcher
... And it's sweet to hear the tales the troopers tell, To dance with blowzy housemaids at the regimental hops And thrash the cad who says you waltz too well. Yes, it makes you cock-a-hoop to be "Rider" to your troop, And branded with a blasted worsted spur, When you envy, O how keenly, one poor Tommy being cleanly Who blacks your boots and ...
— Verses 1889-1896 • Rudyard Kipling


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