A sparrow.
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.
That which goads to action; an incitement.
Something that projects; a snag.
One of the large or principal roots of a tree.
Any stiff, sharp spine, as on the wings and legs of certain birds, on the legs of insects, etc.; especially, the spine on a cock's leg.
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.
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.
A brace strengthening a post and some connected part, as a rafter or crossbeam; a strut.
The short wooden buttress of a post.
Any projecting appendage of a flower looking like a spur.
A wall that crosses a part of a rampart and joins to an inner wall.
A piece of timber fixed on the bilge ways before launching, having the upper ends bolted to the vessel's side.
A branch of a vein.
The track of an animal, as an otter; a spoor.
To prick with spurs; to incite to a more hasty pace; to urge or goad; as, to spur a horse.
To urge or encourage to action, or to a more vigorous pursuit of an object; to incite; to stimulate; to instigate; to impel; to drive.
To put spurs on; as, a spurred boot.
To spur on one's horse; to travel with great expedition; to hasten; hence, to press forward in any pursuit.
To drive back or away, as with the foot; to kick.
To reject with disdain; to scorn to receive or accept; to treat with contempt.
To kick or toss up the heels.
To manifest disdain in rejecting anything; to make contemptuous opposition or resistance.
A kick; a blow with the foot.
Disdainful rejection; contemptuous treatment.
A body of coal left to sustain an overhanging mass.
