cockspur

English

noun
Definitions
  • A blade for tying to the foot of a gamecock.
  • A kind of grass ().
  • A kind of hawthorn ().

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English cokkispore com from English cock (penis, male domestic chicken, a shock pile of grain, diminutive suffix, male, a roundish heap, rooster) + English spur.

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English

spur

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