Possible Clues:

• Stimulate or excite
• Wake or stir up
• Spur
• Excite a lady going round the bend
• Encourage a king to go on the river
• Whet
• Can a broken oar be any use to one or awake any interest?
• Stimulate a scheme to protect last of buffalo
• Might this awaken what is so sour in George Russell?
• A trick to hold the ring and so cause excitement