Spurred

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Wearing spurs: Spurred riders sat astride sleek mares.
  • adj. Having spurs or a spur: spurred flowers; spurred boots.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. Simple past tense and past participle of spur.
  • adj. Wearing spurs.
  • adj. Furnished with a spur or spurs; having shoots like spurs.
  • adj. Affected with spur, or ergot.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Wearing spurs; furnished with a spur or spurs; having shoots like spurs.
  • adj. Affected with spur, or ergot.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Wearing spurs: as, a spurred horseman.
  • In ornithology:
  • Having unusually long claws: as, the spurred towhee.
  • Having spurs; calcarate. See spur, n., 3 .
  • Spur-heeled.
  • Spur-winged.
  • In mammal., herpet., and entomology, having spurs of any kind; calearate.
  • In botany, producing or provided with a spur; calcarate.
  • Word Usage
    "Tessa and I were given $100 cash to read a script in November 2000, a script so bad that even the title spurred paroxysms of fitful laughter (I'd say which script it was, but this blog has gotten me into enough trouble this week already)."
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    spicate    calcarate    spiciferous   
    Verb Stem
    spur   
    Rhyme
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