Scrabble?! SPUR

Definitions of SPUR in various dictionaries:

noun - a verb alization that encourages you to attempt something

noun - any sharply pointed projection

noun - tubular extension at the base of the corolla in some flowers

noun - a sharp prod fixed to a rider's heel and used to urge a horse onward

noun - a railway line connected to a trunk line

verb - incite or stimulate

verb - give heart or courage to

verb - strike with a spur

verb - goad with spurs

verb - equip with spurs

A short spike or spiked wheel that attaches to the heel of a rider’s boot and is used to urge a horse forward.

Something that serves as a goad or an incentive.

A spinelike process on the leg of some birds.

A climbing iron; a crampon.

A gaff attached to the leg of a gamecock.

A short or stunted branch of a tree.

A bony outgrowth or protuberance.

A lateral ridge projecting from a mountain or mountain range.

An oblique reinforcing prop or stay of timber or masonry.

A tubular or saclike extension of the corolla or calyx of a flower, as in a columbine or larkspur.

An ergot growing on rye.

A spur track.

To urge (a horse) on by the use of spurs.

To incite or stimulate: “A business tax cut is needed to spur industrial investment” (New York Times).

To ride quickly by spurring a horse.

To proceed in haste.

verb - to urge on with a spur (a horseman's goad)