Meaning

• 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.

• A jab given with the spurs.

• Anything that inspires or motivates, as a spur does a horse.

• An appendage or spike pointing rearward, near the foot, for instance that of a rooster.

• Any protruding part connected at one end, for instance a highway that extends from another highway into a city.

• Roots, tree roots.

• A mountain that shoots from another mountain or range and extends some distance in a lateral direction, or at right angles.

• 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.

• A brace strengthening a post and some connected part, such as a rafter or crossbeam; a strut.

• The short wooden buttress of a post.

• 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.

• Ergotized rye or other grain.

• A wall in a fortification that crosses a part of a rampart and joins to an inner wall.

• A piece of timber fixed on the bilgeways before launching, having the upper ends bolted to the vessel's side.

• A curved piece of timber serving as a half to support the deck where a whole beam cannot be placed.

• A branch of a vein.

• A very short branch line of a railway line.

• A short thin side shoot from a branch, especially one that bears fruit or, in conifers, the shoots that bear the leaves.

Meaning

• To prod (especially a horse) on the side or flank, with the intent to urge motion or haste, to gig.

• To urge or encourage to action, or to a more vigorous pursuit of an object

• To put spurs on.

  "to spur boots"

• To press forward; to travel in great haste.