LekhoriLekhoriA rigid implement, often roughly y-shaped, that is fixed to one's heel for the purpose of prodding a horse. Often worn by, and emblematic of, the cowboy or the knight.
Lives he, good uncle? thrice within this hour I saw him down; thrice up again, and fighting; From helmet to the spur all blood he was.
A jab given with the spurs.
I had hardly said the word, when Kit jumped into the saddle, and gave his horse a whip and a spur — and off it cantered, as if it were in as great a hurry to be married as Kit himself.
A tern.
A spurious tone, one that interferes with a signal in a circuit and is often masked underneath that signal.
The track of an animal, such as an otter; a spoor.
someone connected with Tottenham Hotspur FC, as a fan, player, coach etc.
To prod (especially a horse) on the side or flank, with the intent to urge motion or haste, to gig.
Draw, archers, draw your arrows to the head! Spur your proud horses hard, and ride in blood; Amaze the welkin with your broken staves!
From Middle English spure, spore, from Old English spora, spura, from Proto-West Germanic *spurō, from Proto-Germanic *spurô, from Proto-Indo-European *sperH- (“to kick”).
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Alternative form of speer.
I haue yonder vncouered a faire girle, Ile be ſo bolde as ſpurre her, vvhat might a bodie call her name?