English

Noun

spoor ‎(usually uncountable, plural spoors)

1. The track, trail, droppings or scent of an animal
   • 1971, William S. Burroughs, The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead, page 10

     Now he has picked up the spoor of drunken vomit and there is the doll sprawled against a wall, his pants streaked with urine.

   • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter VIII

     Even poor Nobs appeared dejected as we quit the compound and set out upon the well-marked spoor of the abductor.

Translations

Verb

spoor ‎(third-person singular simple present spoors, present participle spooring, simple past and past participle spoored)

1. (transitive) To track an animal by following its spoor

Anagrams

• roops
• sopor

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spoːr/

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch spor, from Old Dutch *spor, from Proto-Germanic *spurą, from Proto-Indo-European *sperH-.

Noun

spoor n ‎(plural sporen, diminutive spoortje n)

1. track
2. railway track
3. trace
4. spoor
5. lead, trail, clue

Derived terms

• smalspoor
• spoorbaan
• spoorloos
• spoorweg
• treinspoor
• voetspoor
• opsporen

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch spore, from Old Dutch *sporo from Proto-Germanic *spurô, from Proto-Indo-European *sperH-.

Noun

spoor f ‎(plural sporen, diminutive spoortje n)

1. spur
2. spore

Derived terms

• sporen