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- English Word Spunky Definition Full of spunk; quick; spirited.
- English Word Spur Definition A sparrow.
- English Word Spur Definition A tern.
- English Word Spur Definition 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.
- English Word Spur Definition That which goads to action; an incitement.
- English Word Spur Definition Something that projects; a snag.
- English Word Spur Definition One of the large or principal roots of a tree.
- English Word Spur Definition 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.
- English Word Spur Definition 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.
- English Word Spur Definition 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.
- English Word Spur Definition A brace strengthening a post and some connected part, as a rafter or crossbeam; a strut.
- English Word Spur Definition The short wooden buttress of a post.
- English Word Spur Definition 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.
- English Word Spur Definition Any projecting appendage of a flower looking like a spur.
- English Word Spur Definition Ergotized rye or other grain.
- English Word Spur Definition A wall that crosses a part of a rampart and joins to an inner wall.
- English Word Spur Definition A piece of timber fixed on the bilge ways before launching, having the upper ends bolted to the vessel's side.
- English Word Spur Definition A curved piece of timber serving as a half to support the deck where a whole beam can not be placed.
- English Word Spur Definition To prick with spurs; to incite to a more hasty pace; to urge or goad; as, to spur a horse.
- English Word Spur Definition 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.
- English Word Spur Definition To put spurs on; as, a spurred boot.
- English Word Spur Definition To spur on one' horse; to travel with great expedition; to hasten; hence, to press forward in any pursuit.
- English Word Spur-royal Definition A gold coin, first made in the reign of Edward IV., having a star on the reverse resembling the rowel of a spur. In the reigns of Elizabeth and of James I., its value was fifteen shillings.
- English Word Spur-shell Definition Any one of several species of handsome gastropod shells of the genus Trochus, or Imperator. The shell is conical, with the margin toothed somewhat like the rowel of a spur.
- English Word Spur-winged Definition Having one or more spurs on the bend of the wings.
- English Word Spurgall Definition A place galled or excoriated by much using of the spur.
- English Word Spurgall Definition To gall or wound with a spur.
- English Word Spurge Definition To emit foam; to froth; -- said of the emission of yeast from beer in course of fermentation.
- English Word Spurge Definition Any plant of the genus Euphorbia. See Euphorbia.
- English Word Spurgewort Definition Any euphorbiaceous plant.