spurred
/spəːd
/adjective
1(Of a rider or their boots) having a spiked device on the heels for urging a horse forward: two young men appeared booted and spurred the clank of spurred boots...
- He's standing on the corner in spurred cowboy boots and a hand-painted Stetson, just a-strumming and a-singing.
- Many horses are dangerous to a spurred rider until they have been trained.
- The children were eternally running to meet a spurred horseman.
1.1(Especially of the legs of a game bird) having a horny spike or pointed growth, used in fighting: a lone gamecock stood propped on stiff spurred legs by one corner...
- The first hen was large and good, and the second was a fair spurred bird.
- Among the multiple-spurred birds, there is often a different number of spurs on the two legs, as is, indeed, the case with this species.
- Table 9 shows the number of spurred species in various families and subfamilies of gallinaceous birds.
1.2 Botany (Of a flower) having a slender tubular projection from the base, typically containing nectar: the spurred flowers are 15mm in diameter...
- There are five petals, and the basal petals are spurred.
- Its spurred blossoms come in shades of pumpkin, peachy rose, gold, ruby, and pale lemon.
- The plant is compact and deciduous, with rich bronze-red in both new and autumn leaves, and spurred white flowers like little bells.