Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pur
spur
spur
noun
(architecture) 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.
(architecture) The short wooden buttress of a post.
(botany) A short thin side shoot from a branch, especially one that bears fruit or, in conifers, the shoots that bear the leaves.
(carpentry) A brace strengthening a post and some connected part, such as a rafter or crossbeam; a strut.
(electronics) A spurious tone, one that interferes with a signal in a circuit and is often masked underneath that signal.
(figurative) Anything that inspires or motivates, as a spur does a horse.
(geology) A mountain that shoots from another mountain or range and extends some distance in a lateral direction, or at right angles.
(mining) A branch of a vein.
(rail transport) A very short branch line of a railway line.
(shipbuilding) A curved piece of timber serving as a half to support the deck where a whole beam cannot be placed.
(shipbuilding) A piece of timber fixed on the bilgeways before launching, having the upper ends bolted to the vessel's side.
(transport) A short branch road of a motorway, freeway or major road.
A jab given with the spurs.
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.
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 tern.
A wall in a fortification that crosses a part of a rampart and joins to an inner wall.
An appendage or spike pointing rearward, near the foot, for instance that of a rooster.
Any protruding part connected at one end, for instance a highway that extends from another highway into a city.
Ergotized rye or other grain.
Roots, tree roots.
The track of an animal, such as an otter; a spoor.
verb
(intransitive) To press forward; to travel in great haste.
(obsolete, dialectal) Alternative form of speer.
(transitive) To prod (especially a horse) on the side or flank, with the intent to urge motion or haste, to gig.
(transitive) To put spurs on.
(transitive) To urge or encourage to action, or to a more vigorous pursuit of an object
