Read full poem →For maidens, on the spur she fled ; and more 150
Dictionary Entry
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.
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Common Phrases
. spurgears spurgear spur
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Poetry examples for “spur”
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Read full poem →He stirs a booted heel and kicks a rolling coal. His spur clinks
on the hearth. Overhead, the rain hammers and chinks. She is so pure
Read full poem →Svb. By my hopes, I meant no other ; what I said wai
only to spur him up a little
Read full poem →Put by your fluting; swell a martial air,
And spur us on with some prophetic word.”
Read full poem →Along a way where fumes of odorless gas
First spur then fell them from the task.
Read full poem →In the bright new season
Spur without reason,
Causing their steeds to leap.
Read full poem →And Rochechouart can match it, stronger yet,
The very spur’s end, built on sheerest cliff,
And Malemort keeps its close hold on Brive,
Read full poem →The fine delight that fathers thought; the strong
Spur, live and lancing like the blowpipe flame,
Breathes once and, quenchèd faster than it came,
Read full poem →Is slung with shining cuirass, sword, and shield?
Where ye may see a spur in bloody field.
Light-footed damsels move with gentle paces
Read full poem →These means of easy research should be at hand. I find that pupils often
need a pretty sharp spur to make them use even their abridged
dictionaries. But so far as concerns acquaintance with the vocabulary of