Spur vs. Spurn — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Spur and Spurn
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Spur
A spur is a metal tool designed to be worn in pairs on the heels of riding boots for the purpose of directing a horse or other animal to move forward or laterally while riding. It is usually used to refine the riding aids (commands) and to back up the natural aids (the leg, seat, hands, and voice).
Spurn
Spurn is a narrow sand tidal island located off the tip of the coast of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England that reaches into the North Sea and forms the north bank of the mouth of the Humber Estuary. It was a spit with a semi-permanent connection to the mainland, but a storm in 2013 made the road down to the end of Spurn impassable to vehicles at high tide.The island is over 3 miles (5 km) long, almost half the width of the estuary at that point, and as little as 50 yards (46 m) wide in places.
Spur
A device with a small spike or a spiked wheel that is worn on a rider's heel and used for urging a horse forward.
Spurn
Reject with disdain or contempt
He spoke gruffly, as if afraid that his invitation would be spurned
Spur
A thing that prompts or encourages someone; an incentive
Wars act as a spur to practical invention
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Spurn
An act of spurning
It is a spurn of God's sovereignty, and a slight of his goodness
Spur
A projection from a mountain or mountain range
It's an easy walk up the spur that leads to the summit
Spurn
To reject with disdain or contempt. ]
Spur
A small, single-pointed support for ceramic ware in a kiln.
Spurn
(ambitransitive) To reject disdainfully; contemn; scorn.
Spur
Urge (a horse) forward by digging one's spurs into its sides
She spurred her horse towards the hedge
Spurn
(transitive) To reject something by pushing it away with the foot.
Spur
Give an incentive or encouragement to (someone)
Her sons' passion for computer games spurred her on to set up a software business
Spurn
(transitive) To waste; fail to make the most of (an opportunity)
Spur
Prune in (a side shoot of a plant) so as to form a spur close to the stem
Spur back the lateral shoots
Spurn
To kick or toss up the heels.
Spur
A short spike or spiked wheel that attaches to the heel of a rider's boot and is used to urge a horse forward.
Spurn
An act of spurning; a scornful rejection.
Spur
An incentive
A spur to action.
Spurn
A kick; a blow with the foot.
Spur
A spinelike process on the leg of some birds.
Spurn
(obsolete) Disdainful rejection; contemptuous treatment.
Spur
A climbing iron; a crampon.
Spurn
(mining) A body of coal left to sustain an overhanging mass.
Spur
A gaff attached to the leg of a gamecock.
Spurn
To drive back or away, as with the foot; to kick.
[The bird] with his foot will spurn adown his cup.
I spurn thee like a cur out of my way.
Spur
A short or stunted branch of a tree.
Spurn
To reject with disdain; to scorn to receive or accept; to treat with contempt.
What safe and nicely I might well delayBy rule of knighthood, I disdain and spurn.
Domestics will pay a more cheerful service when they find themselves not spurned because fortune has laid them at their master's feet.
Spur
A bony outgrowth or protuberance.
Spurn
To kick or toss up the heels.
The miller spurned at a stone.
The drunken chairman in the kennel spurns.
Spur
A lateral ridge projecting from a mountain or mountain range.
Spurn
To manifest disdain in rejecting anything; to make contemptuous opposition or resistance.
Nay, more, to spurn at your most royal image.
Spur
An oblique reinforcing prop or stay of timber or masonry.
Spurn
A kick; a blow with the foot.
What defense can properly be used in such a despicable encounter as this but either the slap or the spurn?
Spur
(Botany) A tubular or saclike extension of the corolla or calyx of a flower, as in a columbine or larkspur.
Spurn
Disdainful rejection; contemptuous treatment.
The insolence of office, and the spurnsThat patient merit of the unworthy takes.
Spur
An ergot growing on rye.
Spurn
A body of coal left to sustain an overhanging mass.
Spur
A spur track.
Spurn
Reject with contempt;
She spurned his advances
Spur
To urge (a horse) on by the use of spurs.
Spur
To incite or stimulate
"A business tax cut is needed to spur industrial investment" (New York Times).
Spur
To ride quickly by spurring a horse.
Spur
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.
Spur
A jab given with the spurs.
Spur
(figurative) Anything that inspires or motivates, as a spur does a horse.
Spur
An appendage or spike pointing rearward, near the foot, for instance that of a rooster.
Spur
Any protruding part connected at one end, for instance a highway that extends from another highway into a city.
Spur
Roots, tree roots.
Spur
(geology) A mountain that shoots from another mountain or range and extends some distance in a lateral direction, or at right angles.
Spur
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.
Spur
(carpentry) A brace strengthening a post and some connected part, such as a rafter or crossbeam; a strut.
Spur
(architecture) The short wooden buttress of a post.
Spur
(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.
Spur
Ergotized rye or other grain.
Spur
A wall in a fortification that crosses a part of a rampart and joins to an inner wall.
Spur
(shipbuilding) A piece of timber fixed on the bilgeways before launching, having the upper ends bolted to the vessel's side.
Spur
(shipbuilding) A curved piece of timber serving as a half to support the deck where a whole beam cannot be placed.
Spur
(mining) A branch of a vein.
Spur
(rail transport) A very short branch line of a railway line.
Spur
(transport) A short branch road of a motorway, freeway or major road.
Spur
(botany) A short thin side shoot from a branch, especially one that bears fruit or, in conifers, the shoots that bear the leaves.
Spur
A tern.
Spur
(electronics) A spurious tone, one that interferes with a signal in a circuit and is often masked underneath that signal.
Spur
(transitive) To prod (especially a horse) on the side or flank, with the intent to urge motion or haste, to gig.
Spur
(transitive) To urge or encourage to action, or to a more vigorous pursuit of an object
Spur
(transitive) To put spurs on.
To spur boots
Spur
(intransitive) To press forward; to travel in great haste.
Spur
To form a spur senses 17-18 of the noun
Spur
A sparrow.
Spur
An implement secured to the heel, or above the heel, of a horseman, to urge the horse by its pressure. Modern spurs have a small wheel, or rowel, with short points. Spurs were the badge of knighthood.
And on her feet a pair of spurs large.
Spur
That which goads to action; an incitement.
Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise(That last infirmity of noble mind)To scorn delights and live laborious days.
Spur
Something that projects; a snag.
Spur
One of the large or principal roots of a tree.
Spur
Any stiff, sharp spine, as on the wings and legs of certain birds, on the legs of insects, etc.; especially, the spine on a cock's leg.
Spur
A mountain that shoots from any other mountain, or range of mountains, and extends to some distance in a lateral direction, or at right angles.
Spur
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.
Spur
A brace strengthening a post and some connected part, as a rafter or crossbeam; a strut.
Spur
The short wooden buttress of a post.
Spur
Any projecting appendage of a flower looking like a spur.
Spur
A wall that crosses a part of a rampart and joins to an inner wall.
Spur
A piece of timber fixed on the bilge ways before launching, having the upper ends bolted to the vessel's side.
Spur
A branch of a vein.
Spur
The track of an animal, as an otter; a spoor.
Spur
To prick with spurs; to incite to a more hasty pace; to urge or goad; as, to spur a horse.
Spur
To urge or encourage to action, or to a more vigorous pursuit of an object; to incite; to stimulate; to instigate; to impel; to drive.
Love will not be spurred to what it loathes.
Spur
To put spurs on; as, a spurred boot.
Spur
To spur on one's horse; to travel with great expedition; to hasten; hence, to press forward in any pursuit.
The Parthians shall be there,And, spurring from the fight, confess their fear.
The roads leading to the capital were covered with multitudes of yeomen, spurring hard to Westminster.
Some bold men, . . . by spurring on, refine themselves.
Spur
A verbalization that encourages you to attempt something;
The ceaseless prodding got on his nerves
Spur
Any pointed projection
Spur
Tubular extension at the base of the corolla in some flowers
Spur
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
Spur
A railway line connected to a trunk line
Spur
Incite or stimulate;
The Academy was formed to spur research
Spur
Give heart or courage to
Spur
Strike with a spur
Spur
Goad with spurs;
The rider spurred his horse
Spur
Equip with spurs;
Spur horses
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