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spur

B2 noun
gen /speː/

Các nghĩa

  1. đinh thúc ngựa

    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.

    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.

  2. dấu chân thú

    A jab given with the spurs.

  3. Anything that inspires or motivates, as a spur does a horse.

    figuratively

  4. cựa

    An appendage or spike pointing rearward, near the foot, for instance that of a rooster.

  5. Any protruding part connected at one end, for instance a highway that extends from another highway into a city.

  6. Roots, tree roots.

    […] the strong-bas'd promontory / Have I made shake; and by the spurs pluck'd up / The pine and cedar […]

  7. A mountain that shoots from another mountain or range and extends some distance in a lateral direction, or at right angles.

    But a narrow spur of rocks arched out and over the hole, ending in an outcrop perhaps a hundred feet across.

  8. A spiked iron worn by seamen upon the bottom of the boot, to enable them to stand upon the carcass of a whale to strip off the blubber.

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