A spur is a metal tool designed to be worn in pairs on the heels of riding boots for the purpose of directing a horse or other animal to move forward or...
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Look up Spur in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A spur is a metal instrument fastened to the heel of a horse rider. Spur or Spurs may also refer to: Bone...
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A spur is a lateral ridge or tongue of land descending from a hill, mountain or main crest of a ridge. It can also be defined as another hill or mountain...
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A calcaneal spur (also known as a heel spur) is a bony outgrowth from the calcaneal tuberosity (heel bone). Calcaneal spurs are typically detected by...
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Flying Spur may refer to: Bentley S2 Continental Flying Spur (1959–1962) Bentley S3 Continental Flying Spur (1962–1965) Bentley Flying Spur (2005) (2005–present)...
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Spur Awards are literary prizes given annually by the Western Writers of America (WWA). The purpose of the Spur Awards is to honor writers for distinguished...
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Spur gears or straight-cut gears are the simplest type of gear. They consist of a cylinder or disk with teeth projecting radially. Viewing the gear at...
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A spur route is a short road forming a branch from a longer, more important road such as a freeway, Interstate Highway, or motorway. A bypass or beltway...
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The Naked Spur is a 1953 American Western film directed by Anthony Mann and starring James Stewart, Janet Leigh, Robert Ryan, Ralph Meeker, and Millard...
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The San Antonio Spurs are an American professional basketball team based in San Antonio. The Spurs compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA)...
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Nebraska Connecting Link, Nebraska Spur, and Nebraska Recreation Road highways are a secondary part of the Nebraska highway system. They connect small...
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The Order of the Spur is a Cavalry tradition within the United States Army. Soldiers serving with Cavalry units (referred to as "Troopers") are inducted...
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A spur castle is a type of medieval fortification that is sited on a spur of a hill or mountain for defensive purposes. Ideally, it would be protected...
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A spur is an outgrowth of bone covered in a sheath of horn found in various anatomical locations in some animals. Unlike claws or nails, which grow from...
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The Bentley Flying Spur, known as the Bentley Continental Flying Spur before 2013, is a full-sized luxury car produced by Bentley Motors Limited since...
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The Spur Ryal was an extremely rare English gold coin issued in the reign of King James I. The coin is a development of the earlier Rose Noble, or Ryal...
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Pelvic spurs (also known as vestigial legs) are external protrusions found around the cloaca in certain superfamilies of snakes belonging to the greater...
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July 2014 proclaimed Spur the "nation's first tiny house-friendly town." Spur began after E. P. Swenson and associates purchased Spur Ranch in 1907 and subdivided...
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A truncated spur is a spur, which is a ridge that descends towards a valley floor or coastline from a higher elevation, that ends in an inverted-V face...
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Spur Corporation Limited (JSE: SUR) is a South African restaurant company. It operates a number of franchise chains, among them Casa Bella, Panarotti's‚...
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The Spur Posse was a "white, suburban clique" of former and current Lakewood High School students from Lakewood, California. The members of the group,...
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Orion Arm (redirect from Local Spur)
or Orion Bridge, and it was previously identified as the Local Spur or the Orion Spur. It should not be confused with the outer terminus of the Norma...
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Rolls-Royce Silver Spirit (redirect from Rolls-Royce Silver Spur)
from 1980 to 1997. It was the first model in the SZ series. The Silver Spur is a long-wheelbase version of the Silver Spirit, produced from 1980 to 2000...
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On the Spur of the Moment may refer to: On the Spur of the Moment (Horace Parlan album), 1961 On the Spur of the Moment (Brainstorm album), 2011 This disambiguation...
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The Black Spur is a road between the towns of Healesville and Narbethong in Victoria, Australia. It is also known as Black Spur Drive and is part of the...
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State highway spurs in Texas are owned and maintained by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT). Spur 1 is a designation that has been used for...
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State highway spurs in Texas are owned and maintained by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT). Spur 200 is located in Roma. It runs from US 83...
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The Geneva Spur, named Eperon des Genevois and has also been called the Saddle Rib is a geological feature on Mount Everest—it is a large rock buttress...
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a journal of the same name Spur. Spur was subject to prosecution and was convicted "in the name of moral order". The Spur group joined and collaborated...
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The Falmouth Spur is a short freeway connecting Interstate 95 (I-95) with I-295 and US Route 1 (US 1) north of Portland, Maine, in the United States. It...
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