English Dictionary

spur

/spɜː/

noun

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 jab given with the spurs.

He used a spur to urge the horse forward.

意味（1）

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.

Meronyms: rowel, prick

意味（2）

A jab given with the spurs.

I had hardly said the word, when Kit jumped into the saddle, and gave his horse a whip and a spur — and off it cantered, as if it were in as great a hurry to be married as Kit himself.

意味（3）

(figuratively) Anything that inspires or motivates, as a spur does a horse.

She is a theame of honour and renowne, / A ſpurre to valiant and magnanimous deeds, / Whoſe preſent courage may beate downe our foes, / And fame in time to come canonize us, …

意味（4）

An appendage or spike pointing rearward, near the foot, for instance that of a rooster.

意味（5）

Any protruding part connected at one end, for instance a highway that extends from another highway into a city.

意味（6）

Roots, tree roots.

[…] the strong-bas'd promontory / Have I made shake; and by the spurs pluck'd up / The pine and cedar […]

意味（7）

(geology) A mountain that shoots from another mountain or range and extends some distance in a lateral direction, or at right angles.

意味（8）

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.

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(carpentry) A brace strengthening a post and some connected part, such as a rafter or crossbeam; a strut.

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(architecture) The short wooden buttress of a post.

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(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.

意味（12）

Ergotized rye or other grain.

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A wall in a fortification that crosses a part of a rampart and joins to an inner wall.

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(shipbuilding) A piece of timber fixed on the bilgeways before launching, having the upper ends bolted to the vessel's side.

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(shipbuilding) A curved piece of timber serving as a half to support the deck where a whole beam cannot be placed.

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(mining) A branch of a vein.

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(rail transport) A very short branch line of a railway line.

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(transport) A short branch road of a motorway, freeway or major road.

意味（19）

(botany) A short thin side shoot from a branch, especially one that bears fruit or, in conifers, the shoots that bear the leaves.