1. a U-shaped device that slips over and straps to the heel of a riding boot and has a blunt or pointed metal part projecting from the back: used by a mounted rider to urge a horse forward by pressing the projection against the horse’s flank.
2. anything that urges or drives someone to act, hurry, etc.: A passion to win the championship was the spur that galvanized him to train like never before.
3. climbing iron.
4. a stiff, usually sharp, horny process on the leg of various birds, especially the domestic rooster, or on the bend of the wing, as in jacanas and screamers.
5. bone spur.
• a sharp piercing or cutting instrument fastened to the leg of a gamecock in cockfighting; gaff.
• anything resembling this instrument; a sharp projection or attachment.
7. a ridge or line of elevation projecting from or subordinate to the main body of a mountain or mountain range.
8. a short or stunted branch or shoot, as of a tree.
9. a short, seriflike projection from the bottom of the short vertical stroke in the capital G in some fonts.
10. wing dam.
11. Botany.
• a slender, usually hollow, projection from some part of a flower, as from the calyx of the larkspur or the corolla of the violet.
• a short shoot bearing flowers, as in fruit trees.
12. Architecture.
• a short wooden brace, usually temporary, for strengthening a post or some other part.
• any offset from a wall, as a buttress.
• griffe².
13. a triangular support of refractory clay for an object being fired.
14. spur track.

15. to prick or urge with or as if with a spur or spurs; incite or drive (often used with on): The rider spurred his mount into a wild gallop.Their encouragement spurred her on to achieve even more.
16. (of a gamecock) to strike or wound with a spur.
17. to furnish with spurs or a spur.

18. to goad or urge one's horse on with spurs or a spur; ride quickly: Horsemen spurred along every road to carry the news over the country.
19. to proceed hurriedly; press forward: We spurred onward through the night.

20. without deliberation; impulsively; suddenly: We headed for the beach on the spur of the moment.
21. to achieve distinction or success for the first time; prove one's ability or worth: Our team hasn't won its spurs yet.

1. a batch of newly made rag-paper sheets.

1. a pointed device or sharp spiked wheel fixed to the heel of a rider's boot to enable him to urge his horse on
2. anything serving to urge or encourage
3. a sharp horny projection from the leg just above the claws in male birds, such as the domestic cock
4. a pointed process in any of various animals; calcar
5. a tubular extension at the base of the corolla in flowers such as larkspur
6. a short or stunted branch of a tree
7. a ridge projecting laterally from a mountain or mountain range
8. a wooden prop or a masonry reinforcing pier
9. another name for groyne
10. a railway branch line or siding
11. a short side road leading off a main road
12. a sharp cutting instrument attached to the leg of a gamecock
13. on impulse
14. win one's spurs
• to earn knighthood
• to prove one's ability; gain distinction

15. to goad or urge with or as if with spurs
16. to go or ride quickly; press on
17. to injure or strike with a spur
18. to provide with a spur or spurs

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