Look up: spar

1. spar
   [n] - any of various nonmetallic minerals (calcite or feldspar) that are light in color and transparent or translucent and cleavable 2. [n] - a stout rounded pole of wood or metal used to support rigging 3. [v] - fight with spurs 4. [v] - box lightly 5. [v] - fight verbally
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2. Spar
   A general name for all masts, booms, gaffs, and bowsprits.
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3. Spar
   a long thin pole such as a mast or boom
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4. Spar
   The main longitudinal beam or beams of a wing or control surface. Secondary structures are built around the spar to transfer the load to it, and in the case of wing ribs, also to give correct aerofoil form.
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5. spar
   principal spanwise structural element of an aerofoil Category: Transport • a tall standing tree,trimmed and topped,and generally braced with guy lines,near whose truncated top the skyline and other riggings are fastened in skyline-and high-lead cable logging Category: agriculture, fis...
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6. Spar
   giant staples of split hazel or willow thrust either straight into the thatch to secure it, or alternatively, used to secure liggers.
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7. Spar
   Spar noun [ Anglo-Saxon spær in spærstān chalkstone; akin to Middle High German spar , German spar kalk plaster.] (Min.) An old name for a nonmetallic mineral, usually cleavable and somewhat lustrous; as, calc...
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8. Spar
   Spar noun [ Middle English sparre ; akin to Dutch spar , German sparren , Old High German sparro , Dan.& Swedish sparre , Icelandic sparri ; of uncertain origin. ... 171. Confer Spar ,
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9. Spar
   Spar transitive verb [ Middle English sparren , Anglo-Saxon sparrian ; akin to German sperren , Icelandic sperra ; from the noun. √171. See Spara beam, bar.] 1. To bolt; to bar. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.<...
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10. Spar
    Spar intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Sparred ; present participle & verbal noun Sparring .] [ Of uncertain origin; confer Old French esparer to kick, French épar...
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11. Spar
    Spar noun 1. A contest at sparring or boxing. 2. A movement of offense or defense in boxing.
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12. spar
    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, ...
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13. spar
    sparring noun making the motions of attack and defense with the fists and arms; a part of training for a boxer
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14. spar
    noun a stout rounded pole of wood or metal used to support rigging
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15. spar
    noun any of various nonmetallic minerals (calcite or feldspar) that are light in color and transparent or translucent and cleavable
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16. Spar
    • (v. t.) To To supply or equip with spars, as a vessel. • (v. t.) Formerly, a piece of timber, in a general sense; -- still applied locally to rafters. • (n.) A contest at sparring or boxing. • (n.) A movement of offense or defense in boxing. • (v. i.) To contest in words; ...
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17. Spar
    [tree] A spar tree is the tree used as the highest anchor point in a high lead cable logging setup. The spar tree was selected based on height, location and especially strength and lack of rot in order to withstand the weight and pressure required. Once a spar tree was selected a climber wou...
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18. Spar
    [aviation] 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. Other structural and formi...
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19. SPAR
    Early system on Datatron 200 series. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).
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20. Spar
    [retailer] Spar (styled SPAR), trades from approximately 12500 stores in 34 countries worldwide and is the world`s largest independent voluntary retail trading chain. Spar was founded in the Netherlands in 1932 by retailer Adriaan Van Well and now, through its affiliate organisations, operat...
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21. Spar
    On a sailing ship, a spar is a support from which a sail is hung.
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22. Spar
    In architecture the term spar or sper was applied by old writers to pieces of timber of various kinds, such as quarters, rafters, wooden bars for securing doors, etc. The term is still used in some districts for rafters, Sper-batten is not an unusual name with authors of the Middle Ages for a rafter...
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23. Spar
    a pole or a beam.
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24. spar
    A pole.
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25. Spar
    A wooden, in later years also iron or steel pole used to support various pieces of rigging and sails. The big five-masted full-rigged tall ship Preussen (German spelling
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