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SPUR

4 letters

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Classic 1 pts
Big 1 pts
Super Big 1 pts

SPUR is a valid 4-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 1 in Classic, 1 in Big, and 1 in Super Big Boggle.

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noun
  1. 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.
  2. A jab given with the spurs.
  3. figurativelyAnything that inspires or motivates, as a spur does a horse.
  4. 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.
  7. A mountain that shoots from another mountain or range and extends some distance in a lateral direction, or at right angles.
  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.
  9. A brace strengthening a post and some connected part, such as a rafter or crossbeam; a strut.
  10. The short wooden buttress of a post.
  11. A projection from the round base of a column, occupying the angle of a square plinth upon which the base rests, or bringing the bottom bed of the base to a nearly square form. It is generally carved in leafage.
  12. Ergotized rye or other grain.
  13. A wall in a fortification that crosses a part of a rampart and joins to an inner wall.
  14. A piece of timber fixed on the bilgeways before launching, having the upper ends bolted to the vessel's side.
  15. A curved piece of timber serving as a half to support the deck where a whole beam cannot be placed.
  16. A branch of a vein.
  17. A very short branch line of a railway line.
  18. A short branch road of a motorway, freeway or major road.
  19. A short thin side shoot from a branch, especially one that bears fruit or, in conifers, the shoots that bear the leaves.
  20. A tern.
  21. A spurious tone, one that interferes with a signal in a circuit and is often masked underneath that signal.
  22. The track of an animal, such as an otter; a spoor.
verb
  1. transitiveTo prod (especially a horse) on the side or flank, with the intent to urge motion or haste, to gig.
  2. transitiveTo urge or encourage to action, or to a more vigorous pursuit of an object
  3. transitiveTo put spurs on.
    • to spur boots
  4. intransitiveTo press forward; to travel in great haste.
  5. To form a spur (senses 17-18 of the noun)
  6. alternativedialectalobsoleteAlternative form of speer.