spur
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Substantiivi
spur englanniksi
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)
(RQ:Shakespeare Henry 5)
(RQ:Grose Ancient Armour)
A jab given with the spurs.
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Anything that inspires or motivates, as a spur does a horse.
(RQ:Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida Q1)
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.
Roots, tree roots.
(RQ:Shakespeare Tempest) the strong-bas'd promontory / Have I made shake; and by the spurs pluck'd up / The pine and cedar (..)
(RQ:Shakespeare Cymbeline)
A mountain that shoots from another mountain or range and extends some distance in a lateral direction, or at 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.
A brace strengthening a post and some connected part, such as a rafter or crossbeam; a strut.
The short wooden buttress of a post.
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.
A wall in a fortification that crosses a part of a rampart and joins to an inner wall.
A piece of timber fixed on the bilgeways before launching, having the upper ends bolted to the vessel's side.
A curved piece of timber serving as a half to support the deck where a whole beam cannot be placed.
A very short line of a railway line.
A short thin side shoot from a branch, especially one that bears fruit or, in conifers, the shoots that bear the leaves.
To prod (especially a horse) on the side or flank, with the intent to urge motion or haste, to gig.
(RQ:Shakespeare Richard 3)
To urge or encourage to action, or to a more vigorous pursuit of an object
(syn)
(RQ:Shakespeare Twelfth Night)
(quote-journal)
To put spurs on.
(usex)
To press forward; to travel in great haste.
To form a spur (q)
A tern.
A spurious tone, one that interferes with a signal in a circuit and is often masked underneath that signal.
(alternative form of).
(RQ:Lyly Mother Bombie)
(RQ:Beaumont Fletcher Comedies and Tragedies)
1638, Thomas Heywood, "The Rape of Lucrece. A true Roman Tragedy", in ''The Dramatic Works of Thomas Heywood'', Vol. V, John Pearson, 1874, pages 230 & 231.
- (quote)
''The Pall Mall Magazine'', Vol. 33, 1904, page 435.
(alt form)