Home › Words › F › footspurfootspurfootspur means A foothill that shoots from a mountain or range in a perpendicular direction.EtymologyFrom foot + spur.nounA foothill that shoots from a mountain or range in a perpendicular direction.e.g.“A footspur of Tantalus Hill seeks ineffectually to bar the entrance to Manoa's grateful shades and inviting solitudes.” — 1865, H. WIllis Baxley, What I Saw on the West Coast of South and North America, page 523:A crosspiece on a boat against which the rower braces his or her feet; stretcher.A spur or spike projecting from the foot, such as that worn to prod a horse, or that occurring naturally on some birds, such as roosters.e.g.“Slag here lifted the footspur to dash its brains out, as he had been enjoined; but the type of harmlessness, being now rested, escaped its new, and, shall we say, more irrational enemy, by flight.” — 1855, Andrew Douglas, History of the Village of Ferryden, page 14:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).