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— English words —

• spur n. A rigid implement, often roughly y-shaped, that is fixed to one’s heel for the purpose of prodding a…
• spur n. A jab given with the spurs.
• spur n. (Figurative) Anything that inspires or motivates, as a spur does a horse.
• spur n. An appendage or spike pointing rearward, near the foot, for instance that of a rooster.
• spur n. Any protruding part connected at one end, for instance a highway that extends from another highway into a city.
• spur n. Roots, tree roots.
• spur n. (Geology) A mountain that shoots from another mountain or range and extends some distance in a lateral…
• spur n. A spiked iron worn by seamen upon the bottom of the boot, to enable them to stand upon the carcass of…
• spur n. (Carpentry) A brace strengthening a post and some connected part, such as a rafter or crossbeam; a strut.
• spur n. (Architecture) The short wooden buttress of a post.
• spur n. (Architecture) A projection from the round base of a column, occupying the angle of a square plinth…
• spur n. Ergotized rye or other grain.
• spur n. A wall in a fortification that crosses a part of a rampart and joins to an inner wall.
• spur n. (Shipbuilding) A piece of timber fixed on the bilgeways before launching, having the upper ends bolted…
• spur n. (Shipbuilding) A curved piece of timber serving as a half to support the deck where a whole beam cannot be placed.
• spur n. (Mining) A branch of a vein.
• spur n. (Rail transport) A very short branch line of a railway line.
• spur n. (Transport) A short branch road of a motorway, freeway or major road.
• spur n. (Botany) A short thin side shoot from a branch, especially one that bears fruit or, in conifers, the…
• spur v. (Transitive) To prod (especially a horse) on the side or flank, with the intent to urge motion or haste, to gig.
• spur v. (Transitive) To urge or encourage to action, or to a more vigorous pursuit of an object.
• spur v. (Transitive) To put spurs on.
• spur v. (Intransitive) To press forward; to travel in great haste.
• spur v. To form a spur (senses 17-18 of the noun).
• spur n. A tern.
• spur n. (Electronics) A spurious tone, one that interferes with a signal in a circuit and is often masked underneath…
• spur n. The track of an animal, such as an otter; a spoor.
• spur v. (Obsolete, dialectal) Alternative form of speer.
• Spur prop.n. An occupational surname from Middle English.
• Spur n. (Soccer) someone connected with Tottenham Hotspur FC, as a fan, player, coach etc.

— Foreign words, define in English —

• Luxembourgish
  • Spur n. Alternative spelling of Spuer.
• Middle english
  • spur n. Alternative form of spore.
• Romanian
  • șpur n. (Regional, archaic, Maramureș) illegitimate child; bastard.
• Scots
  • spur n. Sparrow.
• Serbo-croatian
  • špur n. (Regional) tire marks.

— English words, defined in Dutch —

• spur n. (Paardrijden) spoor; scherp voorwerp, vaak een getand wieltje aan de hiel van de rijder.
• spur n. (Beschrijvende plantkunde) spoor; hol uitsteeksel aan de voet van een kelkblad, kroonblad of vergroeide kroon.
• spur w. Aansporen, de sporen geven.
• spur w. Teweegbrengen, op gang brengen.

— English words, defined in French —

• spur n. Éperon.
• spur n. (Héraldique) Éperon.
• spur v. Éperonner.
• spur v. Inciter, pousser à.

— English words, defined in Spanish —

• spur s. Espuela.
• spur s. Estímulo.
• spur s. Incentivo.
• spur s. Acicate.
• spur v. Incitar.
• spur v. Estimular.
• spur v. Espolear.
• spur v. Provocar.
• spur s. Brote.
• spur s. Espolón.

— English words, defined in Italian —

• spur s. Sprone.
• spur s. (Araldica) sperone.

— In German —

• spur V. 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs spuren.
• Spur S. Hinweisgebende Hinterlassenschaft.
• Spur S. Im engeren Sinn: durch Fortbewegung bewirkte Markierung auf dem Boden.
• Spur S. Sehr kleine Menge.
• Spur S. Fest vorgegebene Bahn einer Fortbewegung.
• Spur S. Mathematik: die Summe der Diagonalelemente einer Matrix.
• spür V. 2. Person Singular Imperativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs spüren.

— In French —

• spur n.m. (Jardinage) Petite branche fine et courte d’arbre fruitier.
• spur n.m. (Typographie) Partie de lettre que l’on retrouve notamment…

212 English words from 35 English definitions

action Alternative and angle animal another Any Anything appendage archaic Architecture at␣one base bastard beam bears bears␣fruit before bilgeways bolted boot Botany bottom brace branch branch␣line buttress cannot carcass Carpentry child circuit city coach column conifers connected crossbeam crosses curved deck dialectal distance does Electronics enable encourage end ends English Ergotized especially etc extends fan Figurative fixed fixed␣to flank foot for for␣instance form fortification forward freeway from fruit Geology gig given grain great half haste having heel highway horse Hotspur illegitimate implement inner inspires instance intent interferes into Intransitive iron jab joins lateral launching line major marks masked Middle Middle␣English Mining more motion motivates motorway mountain near noun object Obsolete occupational occupying of␣a of␣an often one on␣the on␣the␣side other otter part piece placed player plinth pointing post press press␣forward prod prodding projection protruding purpose pursuit put rafter Rail Rail␣transport railway railway␣line rampart range rearward Regional rigid road rooster roots roughly round rye seamen senses serving shaped Shipbuilding shoot shoots short side signal Soccer some someone Sparrow speer spelling spike spiked spoor spore spur spurious spurs square stand strengthening strut such such␣as support surname tern that that␣is the them thin timber tire tone Tottenham track Transitive transport travel tree underneath upon upper urge vein very vigorous wall wall␣in where whole with wooden worn

24 English words from 29 foreign definitions

auf Boden dem der des die een Fest fine fruitier gang Inciter kroon lettre Matrix Person Petite que Singular spoor Summe van Verbs voorwerp

66 foreign words from 29 foreign definitions

aan Aansporen Acicate Aktiv Araldica arbre arbre␣fruitier Bahn Beschrijvende bewirkte branche brengen Brote courte durch einer engeren Éperon Éperonner Espolear Espolón Espuela Estimular Estímulo Fortbewegung getand geven Héraldique hiel Hinterlassenschaft hol Imperativ Incentivo Incitar Jardinage kelkblad kleine kroonblad l’on Markierung Mathematik Menge notamment Paardrijden Partie plantkunde pousser Präsens Provocar retrouve rijder scherp Sehr Sinn sperone sporen Sprone spüren Teweegbrengen Typographie uitsteeksel vaak vergroeide voet vorgegebene wieltje

148 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

spurn Spurr spurs Spurs SPURS spurt spurge spuria spurns spur␣on Spurrs spurry spurts spurdog spurged spurges Spurgin spuriae spurion spurket spurlet spurlge Spurlin spurned spurner spurred spurrer spurrey spurted spurtle Spurway spur-way spur␣cell spurcity spurdogs spurfowl spurgall spur␣gear Spurgeon spurging Spurgins spurions spurious spurkets spurless spurlets spurlike spurline spurling Spurling +98 words

119 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

Aispuro bespurt upspurt Aispuros bespurts dispurse hotspurs outspurt upspurts ala␣spuria bespurred be-spurred bespurted bone␣spurs cockspurs dispursed dispurses dispurvey footspurs forespurs larkspurs longspurs mispursue outspurts sandspurs sun␣spurge twinspurs unspurned unspurred upspurted bespurting dispurpose dispursing dispurveys king's␣purse mispurpose mispursued mispursues mispursuit outspurted put␣spurs␣to sun␣spurges unspurious upspurting alae␣spuriae antispurion bumps␣purses caper␣spurge conspurcate devil's␣purse +69 words

18 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

Dispur hotspur bone␣spur cockspur footspur forespur larkspur Larkspur longspur sandspur twinspur Gurdaspur whip␣and␣spur rocket␣larkspur Smith's␣longspur Lapland␣longspur Prince␣of␣Wales␣spur thick-billed␣longspur

2 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

pur PUR

5 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

RUP ups UPs UPS μPs

4 anagrams (New words found by changing the order of the letters.)

Prus purs surp UPSR

59 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

burps crups FURPS GURPS Kurps Pirus porus Porus pours praus Pre-Us pro-US Prues Prusa Pruss Prust puers pures puris purls puros purrs purse Purse Pursh pursy reups re-ups roups rumps Rumps rupes Rupes rupis RUPPs RURPs rusip sirup slurp Spaur sprue sprug spurn Spurr spurs Spurs SPURS spurt super Super super- +8 words

41 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

PRs PRS Pru PSR psu PSU pur PUR pus PUs PUS RPs RPS RSP RSU RUP Rus RUS Rus' Rus. R␣Us SPR SRP SRU sup SUP 'sup sup. Sup. sur- Sur. ups UPs UPS μPs urp U-RP urs URs USP usr

20 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

Mpur saur -saur scur slur smur sour spar Spar SPAR Sper sp.␣gr. spor- SPUA spud spue SPUI spun sput stur

5 lipograms (New words found when removing only one letter.)

pur PUR SPR sur- Sur.

2 epenthesis (New words found when adding only one letter.)

Spaur Spurr

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