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spurred

/spɜɹd/ adjective C1
  1. Wearing spurs. · a booted and spurred cowboy
  2. Furnished with a spur or spurs; having shoots like spurs. · a spurred corolla
  3. Affected with spur, or ergot. · spurred rye
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Ali, smiling, repeated the sound, grasped the reins with a firm hand, and spurred his horses, whose beautiful manes floated in the breeze.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 858 · C1
Instead, the government was finally spurred into definitive and monumental legislative action.
The Great Stink and the Engineering of a Modern Metropolis, p. 1 · C2

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