Obs. [Of obscure origin. Modern south-western dialects have spurl and spur in the same sense.] trans. To spread or scatter.
a. 1722. Lisle, Husb. (1757), 21. Farmer Bond … flung no dung, in the spurning or spreading it, into the furrows. Ibid., 30. Spurning is throwing it [sc. lime] abroad on the earth just before sowed.
