Crossword clues for spurred
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Spur \Spur\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spurred (sp[^u]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Spurring.]
To prick with spurs; to incite to a more hasty pace; to urge or goad; as, to spur a horse.
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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.
Love will not be spurred to what it loathes.
--Shak. To put spurs on; as, a spurred boot.
Spurred \Spurred\ (sp[^u]rd), a.
Wearing spurs; furnished with a spur or spurs; having shoots like spurs.
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Affected with spur, or ergot; as, spurred rye.
Spurred corolla (Bot.), a corolla in which there are one or more petals with a spur.
Wiktionary
1 Wearing spurs. 2 Furnished with a spur or spurs; having shoots like spurs. 3 Affected with spur, or ergot. v
(en-past of: spur)
WordNet
n. a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something; "the ceaseless prodding got on his nerves" [syn: goad, goading, prod, prodding, urging, spurring]
any pointed projection [syn: spine]
tubular extension at the base of the corolla in some flowers
a sharp prod fixed to a rider's heel and used to urge a horse onward; "cowboys know not to squat with their spurs on" [syn: gad]
a railway line connected to a trunk line [syn: branch line, spur track]
See spur
Usage examples of "spurred".
Spurred on by their avariciousness and vaulting ambition, they had endeavored to wrest her empire away from her in the most underhanded way, seriously underestimating her in the process.
Spurred by the vast wartime use of secret communications, and beckoned by the new age of mechanization, they independently created the machine whose principle is perhaps the most widely used in cryptography today.
Spurred on by indignation, he weaves new concepts of crime, innocence, culpability, and punishment into his great poem on the nature of things.
The increased demand for ethanol as a gasoline additive in many states, but particularly in the huge California market, has spurred the US government to continue its exemption of the federal fuel tax on ethanol.
Arcadius followed automatically but when he realized that they were travelling in the opposite direction from La Folie, he spurred his horse to catch up with the girl.
At Genappe Lord John had been close enough to see the Life Guards charge and he had even spurred forward to join them.
He called out that the combat was not to the death, but merely a demonstration of swordplay, but Sir Simon gritted his teeth and hacked with the sword so sav- agely that the champion spurred and wheeled his horse away rather than risk injury.
Reading Barbara Cartland and Harlequin romance novels in high school spurred her to start writing.
We always love to touch a cat, but only the insensitive can uniformly welcome the frantic and humid nuzzlings and pawings of a dusty and perhaps not inodorous canine which leaps and fusses and writhes about in awkward feverishness for no particular reason save that blind nerve-centres have been spurred by certain meaningless stimuli.
There was an unaccustomed urgency in her voice, and it spurred Kof and Lendle to action.
Spurred by Ockley, Reeth and Kutch began to climb the creaking treads.
He spurred toward Freegate, hot on the heels of Dunstan, with the Snow Leopardess objecting in the loudest of voices.
They rode slowly toward the knoll, then one man moved out in front and spurred his horse up the hill, broad thick shoulders slumped against the rain.
He spurred the horse again, moved beyond the camp, saw the road turning through a small grove of thick trees.
Hill saluted weakly, and Lee spurred the horse, moved back to the road, past the wagons, the sounds of the wounded, past rows of big guns, crews watching him move by, hats in the air.