Encourage Crossword Clue

While searching our database we found 1 possible solution for the: Encourage crossword clue. This crossword clue was last seen on October 5 2024 Wall Street Journal Crossword puzzle. The solution we have for Encourage has a total of 4 letters.

Verified Answer
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Definition

• A sparrow.
• A tern.
• An implement secured to the heel, or above the heel, of a horseman, to urge the horse by its pressure. Modern spurs have a small wheel, or rowel, with short points. Spurs were the badge of knighthood.
• That which goads to action; an incitement.
• Something that projects; a snag.
• One of the large or principal roots of a tree.
• Any stiff, sharp spine, as on the wings and legs of certain burds, on the legs of insects, etc.; especially, the spine on a cock's leg.
• A mountain that shoots from any other mountain, or range of mountains, and extends to some distance in a lateral direction, or at right angles.
• A spiked iron worn by seamen upon the bottom of the boot, to enable them to stand upon the carcass of a whale, to strip off the blubber.
• A brace strengthening a post and some connected part, as a rafter or crossbeam; a strut.
• The short wooden buttress of a post.
• A projection from the round base of a column, occupying the angle of a square plinth upon which the base rests, or bringing the bottom bed of the base to a nearly square form. It is generally carved in leafage.
• Any projecting appendage of a flower looking like a spur.
• Ergotized rye or other grain.
• A wall that crosses a part of a rampart and joins to an inner wall.
• A piece of timber fixed on the bilge ways before launching, having the upper ends bolted to the vessel's side.
• A curved piece of timber serving as a half to support the deck where a whole beam can not be placed.
• To prick with spurs; to incite to a more hasty pace; to urge or goad; as, to spur a horse.
• To urge or encourage to action, or to a more vigorous pursuit of an object; to incite; to stimulate; to instigate; to impel; to drive.
• To put spurs on; as, a spurred boot.
• To spur on one' horse; to travel with great expedition; to hasten; hence, to press forward in any pursuit.

Check the table below for more likely or similar clues and answers related to Encourage crossword clue.

Rank Answer Clue Publisher
99% SPUR Encourage Wall Street Journal
20% URGE Strongly encourage Wall Street Journal
20% OLE Encouragement for a toreador Wall Street Journal
20% EGGSON Encourages Wall Street Journal
20% TAKETHEQUATRAIN Words of encouragement to a poetry plagiarizer? Wall Street Journal
20% PUSHEDAROUND Encouraged patrons to buy more drinks? Wall Street Journal


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The answer to Encourage crossword clue is SPUR

There are a total of 4 letters in Encourage crossword clue

The Encourage crossword clue was last seen on October 5 2024 Wall Street Journal Crossword puzzle


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