spurrier

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  1. One whose occupation is the making of spurs. Ods so, my spurrier! put them on, boy, quickly. B. Jonson, Staple of News, i. 1.

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  • Report Abuse steve spurrier wants to coach in florida again! —  Yahoo! Sports - Top News
  • "We're just not quite one of the top teams yet." michael. dirocco@jacksonville.com, (904) 359-4500 spurrier at south carolina —  Top Stories - Google News
  • Beyond these stretched far away to the east other shops -- those of a mealman, a lapidary, a cordwainer -- namely, a shoemaker; a lindraper, for they had not yet added the syllable which makes it linen; a lorimer, who dealt in bits and bridles; a pouchmonger, who sold bags and pockets; a parchment-maker; a treaclemonger, a spicer, a chandler, and a pepperer, all four the representatives of our modern grocer; an apothecary; a scrivener, who wrote for the numerous persons who could not write; a fuller, who cleaned clothes; a tapiser, who sold tapestry, universally used for hangings of rooms; a barber, an armourer, a spurrier, a scourer, a dyer, a glover, a turner, a goldbeater, an upholdester or upholsterer, a toothdrawer, a buckler-maker, a fletcher (who feathered arrows), a poulter or poulterer, a vinter or wine-merchant, a pewterer, —  The White Lady of Hazelwood A Tale of the Fourteenth Century
  • Oh yeah, spurrier coach's at SCAR. —  Loser with Socks
 

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  1. Early modern English also sporyor; from Middle English sporier, sporyer, sparer; from spur + -ier.
 

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