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a stout rounded pole of wood or metal used to support rigging

any of various nonmetallic minerals (calcite or feldspar) that are light in color and transparent or translucent and cleavable

fight verbally; "They were sparring all night"

box lightly

fight with spurs; "the gamecocks were sparring"

furnish with spars

a stout rounded pole of wood or metal used to support rigging

any of various nonmetallic minerals (calcite or feldspar) that are light in color and transparent or translucent and cleavable

fight verbally; "They were sparring all night"

box lightly

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 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.

A contest at sparring or boxing.

A movement of offense or defense in boxing.

A mineral having a soft luster; a general name for a mast, yard, boom, etc.; a contest at boxing, or in words.

To box; contest in words.

Sparred.

Sparring.

A rafter: a general term for masts, yards, booms, and gaffs, etc.

A mineral which is perfectly crystalline.

To box with the hands: to fight with showy action: to dispute:-pr.p. sparring; pa.t. and pa.p. sparred.

SPARRER.

A crystalline mineral.

A round beam, as a yard, boom, &c.

To box; skirmish.

To furnish with spars.

To engage in boxing.

A round timber for extending a sail; a mast, yard, boom, or the like.

A vitreous, lustrous mineral.

An easily and regularly frangible mineral; a lustrous crystalline mineral.

A general term for masts, yards, booms, and gaffs; a long piece of timber.

To fight like cocks; to box, or fling out the arms as in boxing; to dispute; to wrangle.

A term applied to those crystals or minerals which break up into rhombs, cubes, plates, prisms, &c., with smooth cleavage faces, as in calcspar, felspar, brown-spar, Iceland-spar, and the like.

Any long round piece of timber, as a mast, a yard, a boom, &c.

To close or fasten with a spar; to bar.

To fight in show, or as preparatory to a real contest, as a pugilist; to box in gloves; to wrangle; to quarrel in words.

A feigned blow; a contention with the fists.

Any lustrous, lamellar mineral having distinct cleavage.

n. [German, Anglo-Saxon] Any earthy mineral that breaks with regular surfaces, and has some degree of lustre.

n. [Dutch, German] A long beam;-a general term for mast, yard, boom, and gaff;-the bar of a gate.

n. A feigned blow ;-a contest at sparring or boxing.