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What is the noun for spurs?

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spur
  1. A 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.
  2. Anything that inspires or motivates, as a spur does to a horse.
  3. An appendage or spike pointing rearward, near the foot, for instance that of a rooster.
  4. Any protruding part connected at one end, for instance a highway that extends from another highway into a city.
  5. Roots, tree roots.
  6. A mountain that shoots from another mountain or range and extends some distance in a lateral direction, or at right angles.
  7. A spiked iron worn by seamen upon the bottom of the boot, to enable them to stand upon the carcass of a whale to strip off the blubber.
  8. (carpentry) A brace strengthening a post and some connected part, such as a rafter or crossbeam; a strut.
  9. (architecture) The short wooden buttress of a post.
  10. (architecture) A projection from the round base of a column, occupying the angle of a square plinth upon which the base rests, or bringing the bottom bed of the base to a nearly square form. It is generally carved in leafage.
  11. Ergotized rye or other grain.
  12. A wall in a fortification that crosses a part of a rampart and joins to an inner wall.
  13. (shipbuilding) A piece of timber fixed on the bilgeways before launching, having the upper ends bolted to the vessel's side.
  14. (shipbuilding) A curved piece of timber serving as a half to support the deck where a whole beam cannot be placed.
  15. (mining) A branch of a vein.
  16. Synonyms:
      17. spike, barb, point, rowel, spine, thorn, prickle, bristle, needle, quill, tine, prong, spicule, projection, spiculum, tip, spicula, spinule, hook, hackle, nib, ray, rachis, jag, brier, virgula, fork, horn, nail, stake, pin, skewer, spit, fid, pricket, piton, spear, stimulus, motivation, impetus, incentive, encouragement, stimulant, incitement, impulse, boost, goad, instigation, provocation, inducement … more
  17. Examples:
      18. “As the horse spurts forward when prodded with a spur, so the doers forge ahead under the lash of criticism.”
      “Hilbert's problems were a spur to some of the most productive mathematical research of the 20th century.”
      “In this type of procedure, resection of a calcaneal spur is generally not performed.”
spurrer
  1. One who spurs.
  2. A manufacturer of spurs.
spur
  1. (electronics) A spurious tone, one that interferes with a signal in a circuit and is often masked underneath that signal.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. spike, barb, point, rowel, spine, thorn, prickle, bristle, needle, quill, tine, prong, spicule, projection, spiculum, tip, spicula, spinule, hook, hackle, nib, ray, rachis, jag, brier, virgula, fork, horn, nail, stake, pin, skewer, spit, fid, pricket, piton, spear, stimulus, motivation, impetus, incentive, encouragement, stimulant, incitement, impulse, boost, goad, instigation, provocation, inducement … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “As the horse spurts forward when prodded with a spur, so the doers forge ahead under the lash of criticism.”
      “Hilbert's problems were a spur to some of the most productive mathematical research of the 20th century.”
      “In this type of procedure, resection of a calcaneal spur is generally not performed.”
spur
  1. The track of an animal, such as an otter; a spoor.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. spike, barb, point, rowel, spine, thorn, prickle, bristle, needle, quill, tine, prong, spicule, projection, spiculum, tip, spicula, spinule, hook, hackle, nib, ray, rachis, jag, brier, virgula, fork, horn, nail, stake, pin, skewer, spit, fid, pricket, piton, spear, stimulus, motivation, impetus, incentive, encouragement, stimulant, incitement, impulse, boost, goad, instigation, provocation, inducement … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “As the horse spurts forward when prodded with a spur, so the doers forge ahead under the lash of criticism.”
      “Hilbert's problems were a spur to some of the most productive mathematical research of the 20th century.”
      “In this type of procedure, resection of a calcaneal spur is generally not performed.”
spurrings
  1. (Britain, dialect, Northern England) banns of marriage
  2. Synonyms:
      3. teambuilding, encouragement, inspiration, motivations, rallyings, upliftings, animation, invigorations, team building, confidence, cheerings, faith, hope, cheer, praise, spurs, positive feedback, shots in the arm, lift, fortification, stimulation, impetuses, stimuli, incentives, incitements, stimulants, impulses, boosts, instigations, provocation, goads, inducements, catalysts, momentums, incitation, yeast, pushes, urges, goadings, pressure, impulsions, proddings, pressings, wills … more
spurgall
  1. A place galled or excoriated by use of the spur.
spurrier
  1. A maker of spurs.
  2. Examples:
      3. “God grant that you can prove these things, spurrier, but they will need proof.”
      “But spurrier had been there in the hills when summer had overcome winter.”
      “On the other hand, it would do spurrier no good to kill Grant.”
spurring
  1. An application of the spurs to a horse.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. teambuilding, encouragement, inspiration, motivation, emboldening, rallying, uplifting, inspiriting, animation, envigorating, envigoration, heartening, invigorating, invigoration, morale boosting, morale building, confidence building, team development, team bonding, lifting morale, bucking up, pepping up, buoying up, team building, cheering, stimulation, spiriting up, positive feedback, shot in the arm, enlivening, confidence, fortification, cheer, lift, faith, hope, spur, praise, cheering on, impetus, stimulus, incentive, incitement, stimulant, impulse, boost, instigation … more
spur
  1. A tern.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. spike, barb, point, rowel, spine, thorn, prickle, bristle, needle, quill, tine, prong, spicule, projection, spiculum, tip, spicula, spinule, hook, hackle, nib, ray, rachis, jag, brier, virgula, fork, horn, nail, stake, pin, skewer, spit, fid, pricket, piton, spear, stimulus, motivation, impetus, incentive, encouragement, stimulant, incitement, impulse, boost, goad, instigation, provocation, inducement … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “As the horse spurts forward when prodded with a spur, so the doers forge ahead under the lash of criticism.”
      “Hilbert's problems were a spur to some of the most productive mathematical research of the 20th century.”
      “In this type of procedure, resection of a calcaneal spur is generally not performed.”
spurriers
  1. plural of spurrier
spurrers
  1. plural of spurrer
spurs
  1. plural of spur
  2. Synonyms:
      3. challenges, dares, goads, provocations, taunts, invitations, summonses, threats, ultimatums, requisitions, provocation, invitation, stimuli, gauntlets … more
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