society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > ride a horse (or other animal) [verb (intransitive)] > use spurs (4)
intransitive. To spur or urge one's horse on; to go on horseback, to ride, esp. fast. Also (of a horse): †to go fast, gallop (obsolete). Now archaic.
spec. To prick with spurs; to spur. Obsolete.
intransitive. To ‘prick’; to spur (a horse).
intransitive. To use spur rowels. Also transitive with it. rare.