Spur

Fused Spur: Power socket that does not have a plug going into it, instead the cable from an appliance like a fridge, radiator, burglar alarm etc and has a fuse socket built into it.

Spur: (1) An angular projection of masonry applied to the base of a tower. The spur design had the double advantage of fending off projectiles from siege engines, and of increasing the difficulty of sapping.

6. Geology A spur of a mountain range or hills.
7. A bend in a pipe, bar, or other straight continuous piece made to allow it to pass around an obstruction.

Knocking post / hurter / pallstane / spur stones
- a stone post usually 2-3 ft high, positioned at corners of buildings, to protect them from the mechanical damage caused by the metal hubs of cart wheels. They can be very decorative.

The palace is located on a rocky spur which dominates the rest of the city. Although contained within a single enclosure the Alhambra is not a single palace but a complex of palaces built over hundreds of years.

In the battlements of Pompeii, additional protection was given by small internal buttresses or spur walls against which the defender might place himself so as to be protected completely on one side.

Crocket - A decorative hook-like spur of stone carved in various leaf shapes and projecting at regular intervals from the angles of spires, pinnacles, canopies, gables etc., in Gothic architecture.

The books and atmospheric photographs of Wallace Nutting helped spur the style.

Spur - a triangular buttress used to strengthen the bottom of a round tower (giving it a square base).
Squinch arch - arched support for an angle turret that does not reach the ground.
Squint - Observation hole in wall or room.

SPUR TIE: in timber-framed construction, a short timber connecting a cruck blade or an arched brace to a wall plate. SQUASH TRACERY: tracery beneath a four-centred arch which is entirely above the springing level (cf. . DROP TRACERY).

See also: Architecture, House, Ground, Ridge, Member