spur

spur

  1. kannus

  2. (vuoren, mäen tms.) haarake

Liittyvät sanat: rowel

Synonyymisanakirja

spur

  1. sivuraide, rata, rautatie, kiertoraide, liikakasvu, kannus, kieleke, uloke, oka, piikki, projektio, yllyttää, ärsyttää, kannustaa.

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Liittyvät sanat: spurgu, spurtata, spurtti.

Käännökset

englanti

kieleke

sivuraide

kannustaa

kannus 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.
1598, William Shakespeare, (w), Act IV, Scene VI, line 4:

Lives he, good uncle? thrice within this hour I saw him down; thrice up again, and fighting; From helmet to the spur all blood he was.
1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 22:
Two sorts of spurs seem to have been in use about the time of the Conquest, one called a pryck, having only a single point like the gaffle of a fighting cock; the other consisting of a number of points of considerable length, radiating from and revolving on a center, thence named the rouelle or wheel spur.
Anything that inspires or motivates, as a spur does to a horse.
1601, (w), (w), Act II, Scene II, line 198.
But, worthy Hector, She is a theme of honour and renown, A spur to valiant and magnanimous deeds...
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.
root Roots, tree roots.
1609, w:William Shakespeare|William Shakespeare, s:The Tragedy of Cymbeline|Cymbeline, Act IV, Scene II, line 57:
I do note / That grief and patience, rooted in them both, / Mingle their spurs together.
1610, s:The Tempest|The Tempest, by w:William Shakespeare|Shakespeare, act 5 scene 1
... the strong-bas'd promontory
Have I made shake; and by the spurs pluck'd up
The pine and cedar (..)
A mountain that shoots from another mountain or range and extends 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.
puhekieltä A brace strengthening a post and some connected part, such as a rafter or crossbeam; a strut.
puhekieltä The short wooden buttress of a post.
puhekieltä 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.
ergotized Ergotized rye or other grain.
A wall in a fortification that crosses a part of a rampart and joins to an inner wall.
puhekieltä A piece of timber fixed on the bilgeways before launching, having the upper ends bolted to the vessel's side.
puhekieltä A curved piece of timber serving as a half to support the deck where a whole beam cannot be placed.
puhekieltä A branch of a vein.
To prod (especially a horse) on the side or flank, with the intent to urge motion or haste, to gig.
1592, William Shakespeare, Richard III, Act V, Scene III, line 339:
Draw, archers, draw your arrows to the head! Spur your proud horses hard, and ride in blood; Amaze the welkin with your broken staves!
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.
1599, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act III, Scene IV, line 4.
My desire / (More sharp than filed steel) did spur me forth...
(quote-journal)|date=17 November 2014|passage=What is unbearable, in fact, is the feeling, 13 years after 9/11, that America has been chasing its tail; that, in some whack-a-mole horror show, the quashing of a jihadi enclave here only spurs the sprouting of another there; that the ideology of Al Qaeda is still reverberating through a blocked Arab world whose Sunni-Shia balance (insofar as that went) was upended by the American invasion of Iraq.
To put spurs on

(usex)

puhekieltä A sparrow.
A tern.
puhekieltä A spurious tone, one that interferes with a signal in a circuit and is often masked underneath that signal.
The track of an animal, such as an otter; a spoor.

Slangisanakirja

  • spurgu: juoppo

  • spurttaa: kiihdyttää vauhtia / lähteä nopeasti

  • spurtti: pyrähdys / kiri : Vedät tänään spurtteja ja huomenna luudaat kympin.

Riimisanakirja

spur rimmaa näiden kanssa:

romadur, happy hour, glamour, improbatur, approbatur, cum laude approbatur, eximia cum laude approbatur, magna cum laude approbatur, lubenter approbatur, laudatur

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