Exact Match:
- 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"
- tubular extension at the base of the corolla in some flowers
- any sharply pointed projection
- goad with spurs; "the rider spurred his horse"
- equip with spurs; "spur horses"
- strike with a spur
- give heart or courage to
- incite or stimulate; "The Academy was formed to spur research"
Synonyms:
- accelerate,
- activation,
- actuation,
- aculeate,
- acuminate,
- animate,
- appendage,
- arm,
- arouse,
- awaken,
- barb,
- barbel,
- barbule,
- bill,
- bough,
- branch,
- brashly,
- breakwater,
- bundle,
- bustle,
- cage,
- cape,
- catalyst,
- cheer on,
- chersonese,
- cog,
- comb,
- coral reef,
- corral,
- countenance,
- crag,
- crest,
- crowd,
- cuspidate,
- delta,
- dispatch,
- drive,
- drive on,
- drove,
- edge,
- egg on,
- encourage,
- encouragement,
- excitant,
- excite,
- exhort,
- expedite,
- fang,
- favor,
- file,
- flog,
- foreland,
- forward,
- gad,
- gadfly,
- gaff,
- goad,
- goad on,
- grind,
- hand,
- harrow,
- haste,
- hasten,
- hasten on,
- hastily,
- head,
- headland,
- herd,
- hie on,
- hilltop,
- hone,
- hook,
- hound on,
- hurry,
- hurry along,
- hurry on,
- hurry up,
- hustle,
- hustle up,
- imp,
- impel,
- impetuously,
- impetus,
- impromptu,
- impulse,
- impulsively,
- incautiously,
- incentive,
- incitation,
- incite,
- incitement,
- induce,
- inducement,
- instigate,
- instigation,
- jag,
- joint,
- knoll,
- lash,
- leg,
- limb,
- link,
- lobe,
- lobule,
- lofty peak,
- member,
- motivate,
- motivation,
- motive,
- mountaintop,
- mull,
- naze,
- needle,
- ness,
- nudge,
- offshoot,
- oilstone,
- on the spot,
- organ,
- oxgoad,
- peak,
- pecten,
- peninsula,
- pic,
- pico,
- pike,
- pinion,
- pinnacle,
- point,
- poke,
- precipice,
- precipitate,
- press,
- pressure,
- prick,
- process,
- prod,
- projection,
- promontory,
- prompt,
- prompting,
- prong,
- propel,
- provocation,
- provoke,
- punch cattle,
- push,
- push on,
- push through,
- quicken,
- quill,
- railroad through,
- rake,
- rally,
- ramification,
- rashly,
- ratchet,
- recklessly,
- reef,
- reset,
- ride herd on,
- root on,
- round up,
- rouse,
- rowel,
- runner,
- rush,
- rush along,
- sandspit,
- sawtooth,
- scion,
- set,
- sharpen,
- shepherd,
- sic,
- snag,
- snaggle,
- speed,
- speed along,
- speed on,
- speed up,
- spiculate,
- spike,
- spine,
- spire,
- spit,
- spray,
- sprig,
- sprocket,
- spur on,
- stampede,
- steeple,
- stimulant,
- stimulate,
- stimulation,
- stimulus,
- sting,
- stir,
- strap,
- strop,
- suddenly,
- summit,
- switch,
- tail,
- taper,
- tendril,
- thoughtlessly,
- tine,
- tongue,
- tooth,
- tor,
- twig,
- unexpectedly,
- unpremeditatedly,
- unthinkingly,
- urge,
- urge on,
- urging,
- whet,
- whip,
- whip along,
- whip on,
- whiplash,
- wing,
- wrangle