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Spar
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- 1 A surname.
- 1 A rafter of a roof.
- 2 A sparring session; a preliminary fight, as in boxing or cock-fighting.
- 3 Any of various microcrystalline minerals, of light, translucent, or transparent appearance, which are easily cleft. countable, uncountable
- 4 making the motions of attack and defense with the fists and arms; a part of training for a boxer wordnet
- 5 A thick pole or piece of wood.
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- 6 A friend, a mate, a pal. Multicultural-London-English
"KLASHNEKOFF: I take two glass then pass the spliff to my spars."
- 7 Any crystal with readily discernible faces. countable, uncountable
- 8 a stout rounded pole of wood or metal used to support rigging wordnet
- 9 A bar of wood used to fasten a door. obsolete
"The Prince staid not his aunswere to devize, / But, opening streight the Sparre, forth to him came […]."
- 10 any of various nonmetallic minerals (calcite or feldspar) that are light in color and transparent or translucent and cleavable wordnet
- 11 Any linear object used as a mast, sprit, yard, boom, pole or gaff.
- 12 A beam-like structural member that supports ribs in an aircraft wing or other airfoil.
- 1 Initialism of signal passed at red. UK, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 1 To bolt, bar. dialectal, obsolete
"The church dores were sparred, Fast boltyd and barryd, Yet wyth a prety gyn I fortuned to come in, […]"
- 2 To fight, especially as practice for martial arts or hand-to-hand combat.
"After early sparring, Spurs started to take control as the interval approached and twice came close to taking the lead. Terry blocked Rafael van der Vaart's header on the line and the same player saw his cross strike the post after Adebayor was unable to apply a touch."
- 3 fight verbally wordnet
- 4 To supply or equip (a vessel) with spars. transitive
- 5 To strike with the feet or spurs, as cocks do.
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- 6 box lightly wordnet
- 7 To contest in words; to wrangle.
- 8 fight with spurs wordnet
- 9 furnish with spars wordnet
Etymology
From Middle English sparre (“spar, rafter, beam”) (noun), sparren (“to close, bar”) (verb), from Middle Dutch sparre or Middle Low German Sparre, all ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sparrô (“stake, beam”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)par- (“beam, log”). Compare Dutch spar (“balk”), German Sparren (“rafter, spar”), Danish sparre (“spar”), Albanian shparr, shpardh (“kind of oak”). Perhaps also compare spear.
From Middle English sparre (“spar, rafter, beam”) (noun), sparren (“to close, bar”) (verb), from Middle Dutch sparre or Middle Low German Sparre, all ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sparrô (“stake, beam”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)par- (“beam, log”). Compare Dutch spar (“balk”), German Sparren (“rafter, spar”), Danish sparre (“spar”), Albanian shparr, shpardh (“kind of oak”). Perhaps also compare spear.
From Middle English sparren (“to dart out; to strike out”), from Old English sperran, spirran, spyrran (“to strike, strike out at, spar”), related to Low German sparre (“a struggling, striving”), German sich sperren (“to struggle, resist, oppose”), Icelandic sperrast (“to kick out at, thrust, struggle”). The slang sense of friend is probably from the phrase sparring partner under the influence of the similar slang words par and star.
From Middle English sparren (“to dart out; to strike out”), from Old English sperran, spirran, spyrran (“to strike, strike out at, spar”), related to Low German sparre (“a struggling, striving”), German sich sperren (“to struggle, resist, oppose”), Icelandic sperrast (“to kick out at, thrust, struggle”). The slang sense of friend is probably from the phrase sparring partner under the influence of the similar slang words par and star.
From Middle Low German spar, sper (“spar”); or from a backformation of sparstone (“spar”), from Middle English sparston (“gypsum, chalk”), from Old English spærstān (“gypsum”). Related to German Sparkalk (“plaster”), Old English spæren (“of plaster, of mortar”).
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