SPURRING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does spurring mean? 

• SPURRING (noun)
  The noun SPURRING has 1 sense:

1. a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something

  Familiarity information: SPURRING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPURRING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A verbalization that encourages you to attempt something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

goad; goading; prod; prodding; spur; spurring; urging

Context example:

the ceaseless prodding got on his nerves

Hypernyms ("spurring" is a kind of...):

encouragement (the expression of approval and support)

Derivation:

spur (incite or stimulate)

 Context examples 

In an instant he was in his saddle and spurring down the valley.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Richer carbon dioxide was spurring the marsh sedges to grow more stems in thicker clusters.

(High carbon dioxide can create 'shrinking stems' in marshes, National Science Foundation)

To his surprise she burst out a-laughing, and, spurring her palfrey, dashed off down the glade, with her page riding behind her.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I do not think that any honorable cavalier could ask for better chance of advancement than might be had by spurring forth before the army and riding to the gateways of Narbonne, or Bergerac or Mont Giscar, where some courteous gentleman would ever be at wait to do what he might to meet your wish or ease you of your vow.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Down went the whole ranks in a whirl of mad confusion, horses plunging and kicking, bewildered men falling, rising, staggering on or back, while ever new lines of horsemen came spurring through the gaps and urged their chargers up the fatal slope.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At the sight a deep groan of rage and of despair went up from the baffled rescuers, and, spurring on their horses, they clattered down the long and winding path which led to the valley beneath.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The sun was yet low in the heaven, and the red cows stood in the long shadow of the elms, chewing the cud and gazing with great vacant eyes at two horsemen who were spurring it down the long white road which dipped and curved away back to where the towers and pinnacles beneath the flat-topped hill marked the old town of Winchester.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then, spurring his steed, the young squire rode at the top of his speed after his companions, and overtook them just at the spot where the trees fringe off into the moor and the straggling hamlet of Hordle lies scattered on either side of the winding and deeply-rutted track.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)