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    spur
    [spər]
    noun
    spur (noun) · spurs (plural noun)
    1. a device with a small spike or a spiked wheel that is worn on a rider's heel and used for urging a horse forward.
      • a hard spike on the back of the leg of a rooster or male game bird, used in fighting.
      • a steel point fastened to the leg of a gamecock.
    2. a thing that prompts or encourages someone; an incentive:
      "profit was both the spur and the reward of enterprise"
    3. a projection from a mountain or mountain range:
      "it's an easy walk up the spur that leads to the summit"
      • a short branch road or rail line.
      • botany
        a slender tubular projection from the base of a flower, e.g. a honeysuckle or orchid, typically containing nectar.
      • a short fruit-bearing side shoot.
      • medicine
        a short pointed growth or process on a part of the body.
    verb
    spur (verb) · spurs (third person present) · spurred (past tense) · spurred (past participle) · spurring (present participle)
    1. urge (a horse) forward by digging one's spurs into its sides:
      "she spurred her horse towards the hedge"
      Similar:
      spur (on)
    2. give an incentive or encouragement to (someone):
      "her sons' passion for computer games spurred her on to set up a software business"
    3. prune in (a side shoot of a plant) so as to form a spur close to the stem:
      "spur back the lateral shoots"
    Origin
    Old English spora, spura, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch spoor and German Sporn, also to spurn.
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  3. Definition of spur verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary to encourage somebody to do something or to encourage them to try harder to achieve something spur somebody/something (on) to something/to do something Her difficult childhood spurred her on to succeed.
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