Crossword-Solution: SPUR
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Spur | n. | A sparrow. |
| Spur | n. | A tern. |
| Spur | n. | 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. |
| Spur | n. | That which goads to action; an incitement. |
| Spur | n. | Something that projects; a snag. |
| Spur | n. | One of the large or principal roots of a tree. |
| Spur | n. | 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. |
| Spur | n. | 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. |
| Spur | n. | 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. |
| Spur | n. | A brace strengthening a post and some connected part, as a rafter or crossbeam; a strut. |
| Spur | n. | The short wooden buttress of a post. |
| Spur | n. | 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. |
| Spur | n. | Any projecting appendage of a flower looking like a spur. |
| Spur | n. | Ergotized rye or other grain. |
| Spur | n. | A wall that crosses a part of a rampart and joins to an inner wall. |
| Spur | n. | A piece of timber fixed on the bilge ways before launching, having the upper ends bolted to the vessel's side. |
| Spur | n. | A curved piece of timber serving as a half to support the deck where a whole beam can not be placed. |
| Spur | v. t. | To prick with spurs; to incite to a more hasty pace; to urge or goad; as, to spur a horse. |
| Spur | v. t. | 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. |
| Spur | v. t. | To put spurs on; as, a spurred boot. |
| Spur | v. i. | To spur on one' horse; to travel with great expedition; to hasten; hence, to press forward in any pursuit. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SPUR | anagram | PRUS, PURS, SUPR |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with SPUR (5)
The most challenging economic problem of a united Germany is the reconstruction of eastern Germany's economy--specifically, finding the right mix of fiscal, regulatory, monetary, and tax policies that will spur investment in the east without derailing western Germany's healthy economy or damaging relations with Western partners.
The rowel of the spur had so wound itself among the gimp cords in those few moments, that separation was likely to be a matter of time.
Terms of this kind that have been in fairly wide use include names for newspapers: Boston Herald => Horrid (or Harried) Boston Globe => Boston Glob Houston (or San Francisco) Chronicle => the Crocknicle (or the Comical) New York Times => New York Slime However, terms like these are often made up on the spur of the moment.
But I should say, on the spur of the moment, that that is one of the principal differences between people anywhere.
With foreign assistance, the oil industry might generate the funds needed to spur industrial development.
Quotes with SPUR (3)
Love loves and in loving always looks beyond what it has in hand and possesses. The driving impulse [*Triebimpuls*] which arouses may tire out; love itself does not tire. This *sursum corda* which is the essence of love may take on fundamentally different forms at different elevations in the various regions of value. The sensualist is struck by the way the pleasure he gets from the objects of his enjoyment gives him less and less satisfaction while his driving impulse stays t…
Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
My favorite words in the world are these: in conjunction. They question curiosities in simple form and function. is a query of broadest scope. is wonder that fuels all hope. Together they lasso the mind like rope, and spur the wildest deductions!
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Three Across, TIME, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 467 times in crossword archives (1944–2025).