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General dictionaries General (31 matching dictionaries)
  1. spur: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
  2. spur: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  3. spur: Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition [home, info]
  4. spur: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
  5. Spur, spur: Wordnik [home, info]
  6. spur: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
  7. Spur: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary [home, info]
  8. Spur: Wiktionary [home, info]
  9. spur: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  10. spur: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  11. spur: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  12. spur: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  13. spur (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  14. Spur, spur: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  15. spur: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
  16. spur: Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms [home, info]
  17. S.P.U.R, SPUR, Spur (Highway), Spur (TX), Spur (architecture), Spur (biology), Spur (botany), Spur (disambiguation), Spur (mountain), Spur (restaurant chain), Spur (road): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  18. spur: Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs [home, info]
  19. Spur: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  20. spur: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  21. spur: Rhymezone [home, info]
  22. Spur (f), spur: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  23. spur: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  24. SPUR: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848) [home, info]
  25. SPUR, spur: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms [home, info]
  26. Spur: 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
  27. spur: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  28. spur: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  29. spur: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  30. spur: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  31. spur: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]

Business dictionaries Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Spur: MoneyGlossary.com [home, info]
  2. spur: Legal dictionary [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SPUR: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing [home, info]
  2. spur: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine dictionaries Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. spur: Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary [home, info]
  2. SPUR, spur: online medical dictionary [home, info]
  3. spur: Medical dictionary [home, info]

Miscellaneous dictionaries Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Spur: Arms and Armour [home, info]
  2. SPUR: Acronym Finder [home, info]
  3. SPUR: AbbreviationZ [home, info]
  4. spur: Idioms [home, info]
  5. SPUR: United States Postal Service Official Abbreviations [home, info]

Science dictionaries Science (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. spur: Archaeology Wordsmith [home, info]
  2. Spur: Bird On! [home, info]
  3. Spur: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics [home, info]
  4. spur: Botanical Terms [home, info]
  5. spur: Flora of New South Wales [home, info]
  6. spur-: Glossary of Roots of Botanical Names [home, info]
  7. Spur: Glossary of Entomology [home, info]

Sports dictionaries Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. spur: Hickok Sports Glossaries [home, info]

Tech dictionaries Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SPUR: Space and Electronic Warfare Lexicon [home, info]
  2. Spur: Dictionary of Military Architecture [home, info]

Quick definitions (spur)

noun:  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")
noun:  tubular extension at the base of the corolla in some flowers
noun:  any pointed projection
noun:  a railway line connected to a trunk line
noun:  a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something
verb:  incite or stimulate ("The Academy was formed to spur research")
verb:  goad with spurs ("The rider spurred his horse")
verb:  equip with spurs ("Spur horses")
verb:  strike with a spur
verb:  give heart or courage to

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Phrases that include spur:   on the spur of the moment, spur track, spur blight, calcaneal spur, flip spur, more...

Words similar to spur:   goad, prod, gad, goading, prodding, spine, spurred, spurring, urging, branch line, griffe, impel, incentive, sidetrack, spur track, stimulus, urge, more...


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