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Meaning of "spurs" and the crossword clue
- Encourage
- Goad
- Goading device
- Grasp urn containing incentive
- Incentive for cowboy's accessory
- Incentive for cowboy’s accessory
- Incite
- Prod
- Prod (into action)
- Railway siding
- Rider's spike
- Secondary ridge projecting from a peak
- Stimulus or incentive
- Stimulus, incentive
- Train track branch
- Urge on
- Rider’s heel attachments
- A sparrow.
- A tern.
- An implement secured to the heel, or above the heel, of a horseman, to urge the horse by its pressure. Modern spurs have a small wheel, or rowel, with short points. Spurs were the badge of knighthood.
- That which goads to action; an incitement.
- Something that projects; a snag.
- One of the large or principal roots of a tree.
- Any stiff, sharp spine, as on the wings and legs of certain burds, on the legs of insects, etc.; especially, the spine on a cock's leg.
- A mountain that shoots from any other mountain, or range of mountains, and extends to 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.
- A brace strengthening a post and some connected part, 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.
- Any projecting appendage of a flower looking like a spur.
- Ergotized rye or other grain.
- A wall that crosses a part of a rampart and joins to an inner wall.
- A piece of timber fixed on the bilge ways 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 can not be placed.
- To prick with spurs; to incite to a more hasty pace; to urge or goad; as, to spur a horse.
- 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.
- To put spurs on; as, a spurred boot.
- To spur on one' horse; to travel with great expedition; to hasten; hence, to press forward in any pursuit.
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