WORD: SPUR
MEANING:
1. A short spike or spiked wheel that attaches to the heel of a rider's boot and is used to urge a horse forward.
2. An incentive: a spur to action.
3. A spurlike attachment or projection, as: a. A spinelike process on the leg of some birds. b. A climbing iron; a crampon. c. A gaff attached to the leg of a gamecock. d. A short or stunted branch of a tree. e. A bony outgrowth or protuberance.
4. A lateral ridge projecting from a mountain or mountain range.
5. An oblique reinforcing prop or stay of timber or masonry.
6. Botany A tubular or saclike extension of the corolla or calyx of a flower, as in a columbine or larkspur.
7. An ergot growing on rye.
8. A spur track.
9. ridge, edge
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. 3 things you missed as the Warriors swept the Spurs to advance to the NBA Finals
PRONOUNCE:
spur - स्पर
LINK: SPUR
MEANING:
1. A short spike or spiked wheel that attaches to the heel of a rider's boot and is used to urge a horse forward.
2. An incentive: a spur to action.
3. A spurlike attachment or projection, as: a. A spinelike process on the leg of some birds. b. A climbing iron; a crampon. c. A gaff attached to the leg of a gamecock. d. A short or stunted branch of a tree. e. A bony outgrowth or protuberance.
4. A lateral ridge projecting from a mountain or mountain range.
5. An oblique reinforcing prop or stay of timber or masonry.
6. Botany A tubular or saclike extension of the corolla or calyx of a flower, as in a columbine or larkspur.
7. An ergot growing on rye.
8. A spur track.
9. ridge, edge
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. 3 things you missed as the Warriors swept the Spurs to advance to the NBA Finals
PRONOUNCE:
spur - स्पर
LINK: SPUR
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