Clues for the word "SPUR"
We've had 191 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 510 times in crosswords. It was last seen in LA Times crossword on February 17, 2026.
Definition of spur
- n. - A sparrow.
- n. - A tern.
- n. - 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.
- n. - That which goads to action; an incitement.
- n. - Something that projects; a snag.
- n. - One of the large or principal roots of a tree.
- n. - Any stiff, sharp spine, as on the wings and legs of certain burds, on the legs of insects, etc.; especially, the spine on a cock's leg.
- n. - 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.
- n. - 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.
- n. - A brace strengthening a post and some connected part, as a rafter or crossbeam; a strut.
- n. - The short wooden buttress of a post.
- n. - 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.
- n. - Any projecting appendage of a flower looking like a spur.
- n. - Ergotized rye or other grain.
- n. - A wall that crosses a part of a rampart and joins to an inner wall.
- n. - A piece of timber fixed on the bilge ways before launching, having the upper ends bolted to the vessel's side.
- n. - A curved piece of timber serving as a half to support the deck where a whole beam can not be placed.
- v. t. - To prick with spurs; to incite to a more hasty pace; to urge or goad; as, to spur a horse.
- v. t. - 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.
- v. t. - To put spurs on; as, a spurred boot.
- v. i. - To spur on one' horse; to travel with great expedition; to hasten; hence, to press forward in any pursuit.
Referring Clues
- Offshoot
- Item on a cowboy boot
- Goad
- Prodder
- Railroad siding
- It's used with a "giddyup!"
- Part of a cowboy's boot
- Railway siding
- Cowboy boot attachment
- Prompt
- Urge (on)
- Egg on
- Pony provoker
- Incentivize
- Side line
- Cowboy boot feature
- Side track
- San Antonio player
- Cowboy boot part
- Stimulate
- Track branch
- Poker variety?
- It may be down at the heel
- San Antonio cager
- Auxiliary track
- Piece of gear for a bronco rider
- Rooster's leg projection
- Branch line
- San Antonio basketballer
- Incite
- Short railroad track
- San Antonio hoopster
- Stud poker?
- Thing on a cowboy's boot
- Tim Duncan, for one
- Cowpoke's prod
- Prod
- Go hurriedly
- Boot attachment
- Provocation
- Branch track
- Cowboy-boot attachment
- Push
- Encourage
- Train-track branch
- Impel
- Egg (on)
- Instigate
- Heel wheel
- Cowboy boot accessory
- Oater boot accessory
- Give courage to
- Palomino prodder
- Pinto prodder
- Rowel holder
- Boot accessory
- Attachment for some boots
- Cowboy-boot part
- Cowboy-boot accessory
- ___-of-the-moment
- Mustang speeder
- Urge
- Railoroad siding
- Pinto provoker
- Train siding
- Urge on
- Type of poker?
- Railroad branch
- Incentive
- Goad on
- Railroad branch line
- Secondary railroad line
- Rider's prod
- ___ on; incite
- Cowboy's boot spike
- ___ on: incite
- Goad, cowboy-style
- Tim Duncan, for his whole career
- Pony prodder
- It could make a colt bolt
- Horse prod
- Attachment for cowboy boots
- Provoke
- Inducement
- Impeller
- Motivate
- Mustang encourager
- Acantha
- Sidetrack?
- Cowboy's prod
- Urge onward
- Incite to action
- Boot jingler
- San Antonio pro
- Stimulate, as growth
- Tim Duncan is one
- 2014 N.B.A. champ
- Short railroad branch
- Thing with a rowel
- Arouse
- Poker in a western
- Light a fire under
- Kawhi Leonard, notably
- Wrangler's boot item
- Metal piece on a cowboy boot
- Spike on a cowboy boot
- What might be used with a "Giddy-up!"
- Railroad track in an industrial park, e.g.
- Spiked wheel on a boot
- What you might use when you say "Giddyup!"
- Rodeo goad
- Motivator with the words "giddyup!"
- Ranger's boot add-on
- One down at the heels?
- Be a catalyst for
- Railway offshoot
- Place for a freight train to unload
- San Antonio athlete
- Boot spike
- Horse goad
- Attachment to a cowboy's boot
- Gaff
- Object on a cowboy boot
- Stimulus to action
- Boot jangler
- Stimulus
- San Antonio NBA player
- Cowboy's horse mover
- Sharply pointed projection
- Spike's football side not Southend
- Incite(ment)
- It sticks out and sticks in
- One used by a rider in raising the stirrups?
- Goad - branch line
- Goading instrument
- Prompt small audible noise from animal
- Incentive to knock time off sprint
- Branch road
- San Antonio baller
- Incentive might be painful to hide?
- Incentive - branch
- Cowboy's goading instrument
- Goad - incentive
- See 26 down
- Stud poker?
- Prompt jet has cut time
- Bird dropped from flower branch
- Prompt encouragement
- Might it goad singular football team into action?
- Almost say no to stimulant
- Hurry up slip road
- Stimulus is false without promises
- See 3
- Senate and people of Rome question being replaced by head of union branch
- That of the moment?
- Jockey's boot spike
- Spiked wheel
- Incentive to turn up in southern river
- Encourage a singular soccer side
- Cowboy boot add-on
- Promote or stimulate
- Spiked wheel by a heel
- Palomino poker
- Cowboy-boot gear
- A pointed reminder that you're late?
- Stimulus, incentive
- A quality or feature found in moments, railway lines and cowboy boots?
- Goad into action
- An accelerator pressed with the heel
- A projected incitement?
- Encourager on a cowboy's boot
- Spike on a Western boot
- Mustang accelerator?
- Impetus
- Singular soccer side's incentive
- An accelerator operated from the back seat
- Drive onward
- Appendage on a cowboy's boot
- Prodder on a cowboy boot
- On the ___ of the moment: impulsively
- Rangy thing that jingles and jangles
- On the ___ of the moment
- Cowpoke's poker
- One used by a rider in raising the stirrups?
- Cowboy's motivational 22-Across
- Spiky boot attachment
- Barrel racer's accessory
- San Antonio hooper
- Kick-start
- Part of a cowgirl's boot
- Encourage, with "on"
Last Seen In
- LA Times - February 17, 2026
- Daily American - February 13, 2026
- Your Life Choices - December 14, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 13, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 15, 2025
- Mirror Daily - November 07, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 15, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 09, 2025
- New York Times - October 08, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - September 28, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - September 09, 2025
- Mirror Daily - September 03, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - August 04, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 02, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - July 23, 2025
- New York Times - July 22, 2025
- LA Times - July 06, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 04, 2025
- New York Times - June 17, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - June 17, 2025
- Daily American - June 10, 2025
- Mirror Daily - May 13, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - April 25, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - April 13, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - April 08, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - March 31, 2025
- New York Times - March 18, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - March 10, 2025
- Mirror Daily - February 20, 2025
- New York Times - February 15, 2025
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