spur

• Certainly it appears as if this spur is a sort of weapon, though the animal is of peaceful habits Before sleeping, the platypus curls round to keep itself warm, and brings the flattened tail over the back. —  Chatterbox, 1906
• On these he remarked that "in Tropćolum the posterior part of the receptacle between the insertion of the petals and that of the stamens is dilated so as to form the spur which is so characteristic in the genus. —  Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
• You have taken the priceless spur--necessity--away from him, the spur which has goaded man to nearly all the great achievements in the history of the world You thought it a kindness to deprive yourself in order that your son might begin where you left off. —  Architects of Fate or, Steps to Success and Power
• Before the war, all this spur was a smooth expanse, which passed in a sweep from the slope to the plateau, over this crown of summit To-day, the whole of the summit (which is called the Redan Ridge), for all its two hundred yards, is blown into pits and craters from twenty to fifty feet deep, and sometimes fifty yards long. —  The Old Front Line
• Behind this enemy line is the bulk of the spur, which is partly white from up-blown chalk, partly burnt from months of fire, and partly faintly green from recovering grass. —  The Old Front Line

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