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spar::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | sparring |
| Type of | fisticuffs, boxing, pugilism |
spar::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | pole |
| Has types | yard, sprit, dolphin striker, bowsprit, boom, jibboom, martingale, mast, gaff |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | box |
| Derivation | sparring |
Examples of spar
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During this period, bucks often spar in what seem to be simple pushing contests.
From the post-gazette.com
In campaign stops, Ose and McClintock spar over who can be trusted to cut taxes.
From the sacbee.com
Parrel still allows the spar to be raised or lowered and swivel around the mast.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Few make the move to spar with him and even fewer actually get the best of him.
From the stltoday.com
Foreign cigarette-makers also have to spar with powerful state-owned monopolists.
From the economist.com
Spar clear is assuming your children will be there for you in old age altruistic?
From the guardian.co.uk
He and his colleagues have been experimenting with a mineral called Iceland spar.
From the economist.com
He's one of my idols, so just to watch him train, to watch him spar, was amazing.
From the guardian.co.uk
The spar deck of a frigate was so named because it was used to carry spare spars.
From the en.wikipedia.org
- Any of various nonmetallic minerals (calcite or feldspar) that are light in color and transparent or translucent and cleavable
- Furnish with spars
- A stout rounded pole of wood or metal used to support rigging
- Fight with spurs; "the gamecocks were sparring"
- Making the motions of attack and defense with the fists and arms; a part of training for a boxer
- Box lightly
- In sailing, a spar is a round pole of wood, metal or lightweight materials such as carbon fiber used on a sailing ship. Spars of all types (e.g. ...
- In a fixed-wing aircraft, the spar is often the main structural member of the wing, running spanwise at right angles (or thereabouts depending on wing sweep) to the fuselage. The spar carries flight loads and the weight of the wings whilst on the ground. ...
- Spar is a term that is used to refer to a category of crystals that have readily discernible faces. Crystallized, earthy, and some metallic, a spar will easily break into rhomboidal, cubical, or laminated fragments with polished surfaces, but without regard to the ingredients of which they are ...
