Spurname

• 1

  An occupational surname from Middle English

Spurnoun

• 1

  ball-gamesgameshobbiessomeone connected with Tottenham Hotspur FC, as a fan, player, coach etc.

spurnoun詞源 1/spɜː/

• 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.

  • Lives he, good uncle? thrice within this hour I saw him down; thrice up again, and fighting; From helmet to the spur all blood he was.
  • Tvvo ſorts of ſpurs ſeem to have been in uſe about the time of the Conqueſt, one called a pryck, having only a ſingle point like the gaffle of a fighting cock; the other conſiſting of a number of points of a conſiderable length, radiating from and revolving on a center, thence named the rouelle or vvheel ſpur.
• 2

  A jab given with the spurs.

  • I had hardly said the word, when Kit jumped into the saddle, and gave his horse a whip and a spur — and off it cantered, as if it were in as great a hurry to be married as Kit himself.
• 3

  Anything that inspires or motivates, as a spur does a horse.

  • 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, [...]
• 4

  An appendage or spike pointing rearward, near the foot, for instance that of a rooster.

• 5

  Any protruding part connected at one end, for instance a highway that extends from another highway into a city.

• 6

  Roots, tree roots.

  • […] the strong-bas'd promontory / Have I made shake; and by the spurs pluck'd up / The pine and cedar […]
  • I do note / That grief and patience, rooted in them both, / Mingle their spurs together.
• 7

  geographygeologynatural-sciencesA mountain that shoots from another mountain or range and extends some distance in a lateral direction, or at right angles.

  • But a narrow spur of rocks arched out and over the hole, ending in an outcrop perhaps a hundred feet across.
• 8

  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.

spurverb詞源 1/spɜː/

• 1

  To prod (especially a horse) on the side or flank, with the intent to urge motion or haste, to gig.

  • Draw, archers, draw your arrows to the head! Spur your proud horses hard, and ride in blood; Amaze the welkin with your broken staves!
• 2

  To urge or encourage to action, or to a more vigorous pursuit of an object

  • 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.
• 3

  To put spurs on.

  • to spur boots
• 4

  To press forward; to travel in great haste.

• 5

  To form a spur (senses 17-18 of the noun)

  • It spurs off the Robin Hood line, providing ten miles of single-line test track with a three-mile double section, capable of testing up to 75mph.

spurnoun詞源 2/spɜː/

• 1

  A tern.

spurnoun詞源 3/spɜː/

• 1

  businesselectrical-engineeringelectricityA spurious tone, one that interferes with a signal in a circuit and is often masked underneath that signal.

spurnoun詞源 4/spɜː/

• 1

  The track of an animal, such as an otter; a spoor.

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