0 a small instrument with a sharp point or points that a rider wears on his heels and digs into the horse’s sides to make it go faster. -- เดือยสวมที่ส้นรองเท้า
1 anything that urges a person to make greater efforts -- สิ่งกระตุ้น
He was driven on by the spur of ambition.
In contrast to forms of unpleasantness and adversity that are spurs to useful action, pain must restrict one's capacities in order to justify that equation.
Near its distal extremity it carries one or more tibial spurs.
Mean stem density was significantly greater on the upper spurs than in the lower, less-steep gullies.
The current explosion of constitution-making activity is spurring a re-evaluation of the best practices for constitutional reform.
Declining costs of information have been of critical importance in spurring the international growth of service firms and the service functions within manufacturing firms.
The change spurred fresh debates over crooning and morale.
Hearing a piece of music evoked memories from a person's past, and spurred conversation with others about past experiences.
In the meantime, enormous technological advances spurred a revolution in the sciences concerned with genes, brain, and development.
