Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who uses spurs.
- noun Somebody or something that incites or urges on.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who spurs.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
spurs .
Etymologies
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spur + -er
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Examples
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Donkin said: -- 'You put no more weight on a rope than a bloody spurrer.'
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But he regards the idea of κένταυρος, having been in its origin simply κέντωρ, as much more probable, [it meaning simply ‘the spurrer-on.’]
The Metamorphoses of Ovid Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes and Explanations 43 BC-18? Ovid 1847
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Like how a woman spurned actually has an effect on the spurrer.
Kottu 2009
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