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spur 1. a pointed device or sharp spiked wheel fixed to the heel of a rider's boot to enable him to urge his horse on 2. a sharp horny projection from the leg just above the claws in male birds, such as the domestic cock 3. a pointed process in any of various animals; calcar 4. a tubular extension at the base of the corolla in flowers such as larkspur 5. a short or stunted branch of a tree 6. a ridge projecting laterally from a mountain or mountain range 7. another name for groyne 8. a railway branch line or siding 9. a short side road leading off a main road 10. a sharp cutting instrument attached to the leg of a gamecock 11. win one's spurs History to earn knighthood
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The half a dozen cabins scattered along the banks of the North Fork, as if by some overflow of that capricious river, had become augmented during a week of fierce excitement by twenty or thirty others, that were huddled together on the narrow gorge of Devil's Spur, or cast up on its steep sides. I have now got you under bit and spur, and prefer to keep you as you are at present. "I," said his Chief, Exacting and brief, "I'll give him the spur. |
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