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spur is a metal instrument fastened to the heel of a horse rider.
Spur or Spurs may also refer to:
Medicine
Bone spurs , a skeletal disorder forming small bony outgrowth along joint margins
Heel spur , a thin spike of calcification in the human foot
Organizations
Routes
Spur line , a short railway (railroad) branching from a main line
Spur route , a short road branching from longer, more important route
Spur trail, a shorter
trail which branches from a longer route
Science
Spur (botany) , an elongated appendage of certain sepals
Spur (geology) , a ridge, often one that is subordinate to a larger ridge
Interlocking spur , one of any number of ridges extending alternately from the opposite sides of the wall of a young, V-shaped valley
Spur (stem) , a short flower- and fruit-bearing stem on some fruit trees
Spur (zoology) , an outgrowth of bone covered in a sheath of horn
Spur (chemistry) , a region of high concentration of reaction product
Sports
Witbank Spurs , an association football club from South Africa
Tottenham Hotspur F.C. , a football team based in London, England
San Antonio Spurs , a National Basketball Association team based in San Antonio, Texas, US
Chancellor's Spurs , a traveling trophy awarded to the winner of the college football game between Texas Tech University and the University of Texas at Austin
Other uses
Spur (architecture) , the ornament carved on the angles of the bases of early columns
Spur (horse) , an American thoroughbred racehorse
Spur (lunar crater)
"Spurs" (short story) , a short story by Tod Robbins that served as the basis of the film Freaks
Spur (topography) , a mountain ridge projecting laterally from a main mountain or mountain range
Spur (typography) , a small continuation of part of a printed letter, especially an uppercase G
Spur (vine) , one-year-old wood of a grapevine that is pruned back to leave just one or two buds to be used for next year's crop of grapes
Spur, Texas , United States
Spur Award , an annual literary prize awarded by the Western Writers of America
Spur Gasoline Station , a historic building in Cynthiana, kentucky
Spur gear , a type of gear
SPURS National Honor Society , a collegiate sophomore honor-service society in the United States
Spurious tone or spur, a tone in an electronic circuit which interferes with a signal
The Spur , a collection of Arts and Crafts bungalows in Clifton, Christchurch, New Zealand
The Spurs , a Canadian country music group 1999–2000
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See also
Topics referred to by the same term