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Definition of Spar

1. Verb. Furnish with spars.

2. Noun. Any of various nonmetallic minerals (calcite or feldspar) that are light in color and transparent or translucent and cleavable.

3. Verb. Fight with spurs. "The gamecocks were sparring"

4. Noun. A stout rounded pole of wood or metal used to support rigging.

5. Verb. Box lightly.

6. Noun. Making the motions of attack and defense with the fists and arms; a part of training for a boxer.

7. Verb. Fight verbally. "Sam wants to spar with Sue "; "They were sparring all night"

Definition of Spar

1. n. An old name for a nonmetallic mineral, usually cleavable and somewhat lustrous; as, calc spar, or calcite, fluor spar, etc. It was especially used in the case of the gangue minerals of a metalliferous vein.

2. n. A general term any round piece of timber used as a mast, yard, boom, or gaff.

3. v. t. To bolt; to bar.

4. v. i. To strike with the feet or spurs, as cocks do.

5. n. A contest at sparring or boxing.

Definition of Spar

1. Verb. (obsolete or dialectal) to bolt, bar. ¹

2. Noun. A stout pole. ¹

3. Noun. (nautical) A general term denoting any linear object used as a mast, sprit, yard, boom, pole or gaff. ¹

4. Noun. (aeronautics) A beam-like structural member that supports ribs in an aircraft wing or other airfoil. ¹

5. Verb. To fight, especially as practice for martial arts or hand-to-hand combat. ¹

6. Noun. (context: mineralogy) any of various microcrystalline minerals, of light, translucent, or transparent blee, which are easily cleft ¹

7. Noun. (context: mineralogy) any crystal with no readily discernible faces. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Spar

1. to provide with spars (stout poles used to support rigging) [v SPARRED, SPARRING, SPARS]

Medical Definition of Spar

1. 1. A general term any round piece of timber used as a mast, yard, boom, or gaff. 2. Formerly, a piece of timber, in a general sense; still applied locally to rafters. 3. The bar of a gate or door. Spar buoy, a torpedo carried on the end of a spar usually projecting from the bow of a vessel, and intended to explode upon contact with an enemy's ships. Origin: OE. Sparre; akin to D. Spar, G. Sparren, OHG. Sparro, Dan.& Sw. Sparre, Icel. Sparri; of uncertain origin. 171. Cf. Spar. An old name for a nonmetallic mineral, usually cleavable and somewhat lustrous; as, calc spar, or calcite, fluor spar, etc. It was especially used in the case of the gangue minerals of a metalliferous vein. Blue spar, Cube spar, etc. See Blue, Cube, etc. Origin: AS. Spaer in spaerstan chalkstone; akin to MHG. Spar, G. Sparkalk plaster. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Spar

spanner barbs spannerless spanners spanning spannings spanokopita spanokopitas spanophilia spans spansule

spansules spanwise spanworm spanworms spar (current term) spar buoy sparable sparables sparada sparadrap

sparagmos sparapet sparaxis sparble spard spare spare-time activity spare ball

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