Word Type

Noun

Verb

Proper Noun

The word "spur" can be used as noun, verb and proper noun.

Word Relationships

Derived Terms

Prince of Wales spur bone spur great spur wheel knight's spur spur cell spur gear spur gearing spur leather spur of the moment spur on spur road spur valerian spur-heeled spur-leather spur-of-the-moment spur-royal spur-shell spur-throated grasshopper spur-throated locust spur-way spur-wheel spur-winged spur-winged goose spur-winged lapwing spur-winged plover spurdog under-spur-leather whip and spur

Entails

injure

Etymologically Related To

sparrow spurious

Inflected/Variant Forms

speer

Context

architecture carpentry dialectal electronics mining shipbuilding soccer

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

advance boost enation encourage encouragement equip fit fit out further goad goad line outfit plant process prod projection promote rail line railway line strike

Type Of (IsA)

geographical region high ground minor terrain feature natural thing plant process prod projection tangible thing

Manner Of

encourage equip goad promote strike

Parts (Meronyms)

prick rowel

Part Of

boot

Related Terms

animal appendage bilgeway blubber brace branch buttress carcass circuit coach column cowboy crossbeam emblematic encourage ergotized fan flank foot fortification gig haste heel highway horse implement inspire interfere knight leafage mask motion motivate mountain object otter player plinth post prod protruding pursuit rafter rampart range right angle rooster root rye signal spike spoor spurious strut tern tone track urge vein vigorous whale worn

Synonym Network

branch line goad

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.