Spar is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SPAR in dictionary:

VERB:
• to practise boxing
• make the motions of boxing without landing heavy blows, as a form of training
• argue with someone without marked hostility
• (of a gamecock) fight with the feet or spurs.
• A general term any round piece of timber used as a mast, yard, boom, or gaff.
• Formerly, a piece of timber, in a general sense; -- still applied locally to rafters.
• The bar of a gate or door.
• To bolt; to bar.
• To To supply or equip with spars, as a vessel.
• To strike with the feet or spurs, as cocks do.
• To use the fists and arms scientifically in attack or defense; to contend or combat with the fists, as for exercise or amusement; to box.
• To contest in words; to wrangle.
• furnish with spars
• fight with spurs
• box lightly
• fight verbally
• box or fight using light blows for practice
NOUN:
• a thick, strong pole such as is used for a mast or yard on a ship.
• the main longitudinal beam of an aeroplane wing.
• a period or bout of sparring.
• a close friend
• a crystalline, easily cleavable, translucent or transparent mineral.
• 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.
• A contest at sparring or boxing.
• A movement of offense or defense in boxing.
• any of various nonmetallic minerals (calcite or feldspar) that are light in color and transparent or translucent and cleavable
• a stout rounded pole of wood or metal used to support rigging
• making the motions of attack and defense with the fists and arms; a part of training for a boxer
• pole used as a ship's mast, boom, or yard
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to provide with spars (stout poles used to support rigging)
• pole used as a ship\'s mast, boom, or yard

Words related to SPAR

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How to use SPAR in a sentence

• They went forrard too by the fore brace, and got up on the spar.
• I made a sweeping grab, and caught the fore brace, and with that, I was back in a moment upon the spar.
• Not even a tent on the shore, a wandering boat, a drifting spar, or a rag of a sail! All had disappeared, no doubt, in the conflagration.
• The eye of the strap slipping from the yard, down went the spar into the water.
• A spar is a long piece of timber, cylindrical, tapering, in masts, towards one end, and in yards towards both.
• For I remember nothing of that first night on the spar, and only came slowly back to sense of sodden pain and hunger when the sun was up.
• Phil here saw what was toward and saved his life by floating under a spar and sail.
• The weather-side of every rope, spar, and stay was coated with ice, while all the rigging was a harp, singing and shouting under the fierce hand of the wind.
• A new rudder, formed of a spar and a good-sized plank, has been fitted in the place of the one we lost, but with the wind in its present quarter it is in little requisition.
• The end of the spar almost touched the iron hull of the destined victim.
• The launch was still gliding onward, and carrying the spar forward.
• Not a brace swung loose, not a plank was sprung, no spar was shivered.
• He searched along the shore and found the dead body of the captain, and a piece of splintered spar seven or eight feet long, on which the cabin boy had come ashore.
• He also informed me, that he had lost his main-top-gallant-yard, and that he neither had another, nor a spar to make one, on board.
• The men were thus able to provision them more easily than in their exposed berths on the spar deck.
• The raft floated level with the water, so its only conspicuous fitting was a small spar and a block, to which a line and an iron bar were attached.
• When he neared the line of breakers the lad waved his hand, as a sign to them to prepare to rush forward, and lend a hand, when the spar approached.
• The end of this rope is fastened to a long spar just the height of the ladder and terminating in a number of lines called whips.
• The Count, seated forward in his little carriage, was almost knocked over board, while the boat grazed some spar or bridge.
• The mast was made of two long wooden spars set one on each side of the galley, meeting at the head, and strengthened in between by braces from one spar to another.
• The rocks seemed to leap up against the spar to which Roger clung.
• Such were the old Vikings of the North, who spent their lives in elemental warfare, and rode out to meet death in tempest, lashed to the spar of their craft.
• She and Honora ate their meals in silence, Honora dark with disapproval, Kate clinging to her spar of spiritual integrity.
• But between the spar and crystals there are many sphericles, seemingly of iron, half sunk into each of these two different substances.
• Nearly all of the new and most of the improved ocean steamers have a spar deck, which is above the main deck.
• It may be carried longer, as the spar supports the sail like a band, especially an old sail.
• Nor was there a spar which we could use as mast, save the yard itself.
• A couple of long wire nails in each spar made the structure perfectly secure.

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