Definitions
Pointed rider's tool, projecting support, or incentive to action.
Word origin
From Middle English spure, spore, from Old English spora, spura, from Proto-West Germanic *spurō, from Proto-Germanic *spurô, from Proto-Indo-European *sperH- (“to kick”).
Used in a sentence
“Lives he, good uncle? thrice within this hour I saw him down; thrice up again, and fighting; From helmet to the spur all blood he was.”
“I had hardly said the word, when Kit jumped into the saddle, and gave his horse a whip and a spur — and off it cantered, as if it were in as great a hurry to be married as Kit himself.”
“She is a theame of honour and renowne, / A ſpurre to valiant and magnanimous deeds, / Whoſe preſent courage may beate downe our foes, / And fame in time to come canonize us, [...]”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Heel spike”4 letters
02“Rider's heel tool”4 letters
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