Spur (disambiguation)

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Spur may refer to one of the following.

  • Spur, a metal instrument fastened to the heel of a horseman
  • Spur, a sharp horny growth on the leg of some animals, especially roosters, male pheasants and other male birds of the Galliformes; also male platypuses have poisoned spurs on their hind legs.
  • Spur, small continuation of part of a letter, especially in uppercase Gs. See G for examples of spurred and spurless Gs (where the spurred G is above Basic in the label Basic Latin Alphabet).
  • Spur (architecture), the ornament carved on the angles of the base of early columns
  • Spur (biology), in botany, an elongated appendage of certain sepals
  • Spur (mountain), a mountain ridge projecting laterally from the main mountain or mountain range
  • Spur Steak Ranches, a chain of steakhouses in South Africa
  • Trace (linear algebra)
  • Spur gear, the simplest, and probably most common, type of gear
  • Spur Award, an annual literary prize awarded by the Western Writers of America.
  • Heel spur, a thin spike of calcification seen in X-rays of the human foot, often seen in sufferers from plantar fasciitis
  • Spur line, in railroading, a relatively short railway that leads from the main line of a railroad to some destination offset from the main line
  • Spur route, a short road forming a branch from a longer, more important route (typically a major road, freeway, Interstate Highway or motorway
  • Spur, Texas, a United States city

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