SPAR
\spˈɑː], \spˈɑː], \s_p_ˈɑː]\
Definitions of SPAR
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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a stout rounded pole of wood or metal used to support rigging
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any of various nonmetallic minerals (calcite or feldspar) that are light in color and transparent or translucent and cleavable
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fight verbally; "They were sparring all night"
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box lightly
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fight with spurs; "the gamecocks were sparring"
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furnish with spars
By Princeton University
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a stout rounded pole of wood or metal used to support rigging
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any of various nonmetallic minerals (calcite or feldspar) that are light in color and transparent or translucent and cleavable
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fight verbally; "They were sparring all night"
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box lightly
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
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A general term any round piece of timber used as a mast, yard, boom, or gaff.
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Formerly, a piece of timber, in a general sense; -- still applied locally to rafters.
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The bar of a gate or door.
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To bolt; to bar.
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To To supply or equip with spars, as a vessel.
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To strike with the feet or spurs, as cocks do.
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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.
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To contest in words; to wrangle.
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A contest at sparring or boxing.
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A movement of offense or defense in boxing.
By Oddity Software
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A mineral having a soft luster; a general name for a mast, yard, boom, etc.; a contest at boxing, or in words.
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To box; contest in words.
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Sparred.
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Sparring.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A rafter: a general term for masts, yards, booms, and gaffs, etc.
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A mineral which is perfectly crystalline.
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To box with the hands: to fight with showy action: to dispute:-pr.p. sparring; pa.t. and pa.p. sparred.
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SPARRER.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To furnish with spars.
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To engage in boxing.
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A round timber for extending a sail; a mast, yard, boom, or the like.
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A vitreous, lustrous mineral.
By James Champlin Fernald
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An easily and regularly frangible mineral; a lustrous crystalline mineral.
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A general term for masts, yards, booms, and gaffs; a long piece of timber.
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To fight like cocks; to box, or fling out the arms as in boxing; to dispute; to wrangle.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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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.
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Any long round piece of timber, as a mast, a yard, a boom, &c.
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To close or fasten with a spar; to bar.
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To fight in show, or as preparatory to a real contest, as a pugilist; to box in gloves; to wrangle; to quarrel in words.
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A feigned blow; a contention with the fists.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. [German, Anglo-Saxon] Any earthy mineral that breaks with regular surfaces, and has some degree of lustre.
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n. [Dutch, German] A long beam;-a general term for mast, yard, boom, and gaff;-the bar of a gate.
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n. A feigned blow ;-a contest at sparring or boxing.