Spur(n.)
- 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.
Spur(n.)
- That which goads to action; an incitement.
Spur(n.)
- One of the large or principal roots of a tree.
Spur(n.)
- Any stiff, sharp spine, as on the wings and legs of certain burds, on the legs of insects, etc.; especially, the spine on a cock's leg.
Spur(n.)
- 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.
Spur(n.)
- 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.
Spur(n.)
- A brace strengthening a post and some connected part, as a rafter or crossbeam; a strut.
Spur(n.)
- 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.
Spur(n.)
- Any projecting appendage of a flower looking like a spur.