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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
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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...
- the
River Humber. The
station was
opened in 1810, and was
located on on
Spurn Point in the East
Riding of Yorkshire.
Previously operated by Hull Trinity...
-
Gabler 2006, p. 631. Nicklaus,
David (May 8, 2013). "No,
Disney didn't
spurn St.
Louis over beer". St.
Louis Post-Dispatch.
Archived from the original...
- a wind-driven
vehicle that runs
along railway tracks. The
Spurn railway,
built along Spurn Head on the
Yorkshire coast of
England was
built in the First...
- 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...
- to take over or
acquire Burger King
during the 1970s, all of
which were
spurned by Pillsbury.
After the
failed attempts to
acquire the company, the relationship...
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office instead of him as was promised.
Garrett and
Christina counsel him to
spurn the endor****t, and that John's old-fashioned
message will not help him...
- for
sport matches,
whereas those in
other arts such as
aikido generally spurn such competitions. Some
schools believe that
competition breeds better and...
