Definition of Spurn. Meaning of Spurn. Synonyms of Spurn

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Definition of Spurn

Spurn
Spurn Spurn, v. i. 1. To kick or toss up the heels. The miller spurned at a stone. --Chaucer. The drunken chairman in the kennel spurns. --Gay. 2. To manifest disdain in rejecting anything; to make contemptuous opposition or resistance. Nay, more, to spurn at your most royal image. --Shak.
Spurn
Spurn Spurn, n. 1. A kick; a blow with the foot. [R.] What defence can properly be used in such a despicable encounter as this but either the slap or the spurn? --Milton. 2. Disdainful rejection; contemptuous tratment. The insolence of office and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes. --Shak. 3. (Mining) A body of coal left to sustain an overhanding mass.

Meaning of Spurn from wikipedia

- Spurn is a narrow sand tidal island located off the tip of the coast of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England that reaches into the North Sea and forms...
- The Spurn Lightship (LV No. 12) is a lightvessel (i.e. a ship used as a lighthouse), previously anc****d in Hull Marina in the British city of Kingston...
- 53°36′07″N 0°08′46″E / 53.602°N 0.146°E / 53.602; 0.146 The Spurn Point military railway was a railway line in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England...
- and Robin Hood's Bay. The section of coastline south of Bridlington to Spurn Head is also known as the Holderness coast, from the area of East Yorkshire...
- flooded in the 14th century. The peninsula still survives and is known as Spurn Head. The North Sea lies to the east of the peninsula, the Humber estuary...
- of the River Humber. The station was opened in 1810, and was located on Spurn Point in the East Riding of Yorkshire. Previously operated by Hull Trinity...
- Cleethorpes on the Lincolnshire side and the long and thin headland of Spurn Head to the north. Ports on the Humber include the Port of Hull, the Port...
- Christianity, some ascetics are referred to as Fools for Christ, whereby they spurn the convention of society in pursuit of living a more wholly Christian life...
- Hornsea and Hedon. The Holderness coast stretches from Flamborough Head to Spurn Head. The ancient market town of Beverley lies just to the west of the Holderness...
- WSVN (channel 7) is a television station in Miami, Florida, United States, affiliated with the Fox network. Serving as the flagship station of locally...