Usually means: Sharp spur on rooster's leg.
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  1. cockspur: Merriam-Webster
  2. cockspur: Collins English Dictionary
  3. cockspur: Vocabulary.com
  4. Cockspur, cockspur: Wordnik
  5. cockspur: Wiktionary
  6. cockspur: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. cockspur: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Cockspur, cockspur: Dictionary.com
  9. Cockspur: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. cockspur: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. cockspur: Rhymezone
  12. Cockspur: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. cockspur: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. cockspur: FreeDictionary.org
  15. cockspur: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. cockspur: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. cockspur: Encyclopedia

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  1. Cockspur: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (cockspur)

noun:  (countable) A blade for tying to the foot of a gamecock.
noun:  (uncountable) Grass of species (Echinochloa crus-galli).
noun:  (countable) A hawthorn of species (Crataegus crus-galli).
noun:  (uncountable) Orchard grass, a widely grown tall stout hay and pasture grass (Dactylis glomerata) of Eurasia.
noun:  (countable) A small West Indian tree (Pisonia aculeata).
noun:  (countable) Any of several spiny trees, formerly all of the genus Acacia, such as Vachellia cookii (cockspur acacia).
noun:  (uncountable) Burgrass of species Cenchrus echinatus.
noun:  (uncountable) An annual European weed of species Centaurea melitensis, naturalized in North and South America.
noun:  Any plant of species Casearia aculeata, of the tropical Americas.

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