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单词 spur
释义 spur
n. & v.
--n
  1. a device with a small spike or a spiked wheel worn on a rider's heel for urging a horse forward.
  2. a stimulus or incentive.
  3. a spur-shaped thing, esp.: a a projection from a mountain or mountain range. b a branch road or railway. c a hard projection on a cock's leg. d a steel point fastened to the leg of a gamecock. e a climbing-iron. f a small support for ceramic ware in a kiln.
  4. Bot. a a slender hollow projection from part of a flower. b a short fruit-bearing shoot.
--v (spurred, spurring)
  1. tr. prick (a horse) with spurs.
  2. tr. a (often foll. by on) incite (a person) (spurred him on to greater efforts; spurred her to try again). b stimulate (interest etc.).
  3. intr. (often foll. by on, forward) ride a horse hard.
  4. tr. (esp. as spurred adj.) provide (a person, boots, a gamecock) with spurs.
Phrases and idioms
on the spur of the moment on a momentary impulse; impromptu. put (or set) spurs to
  1. spur (a horse).
  2. stimulate (resolution etc.). spur-gear = spur-wheel. spur royal hist. a 15-shilling coin of James I bearing a spurlike sun with rays. spur-wheel a cog-wheel with radial teeth.
Derivatives
spurless adj.
Etymology: OE spora, spura f. Gmc, rel. to SPURN
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