spar

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Pronunciation

• (British) IPA: /spɑː/
• (America) IPA: /spɑɹ/, [spɑɹ], [spɑ˞]

Noun

spar (plural spars)

1. A rafter of a roof.
2. A thick pole or piece of wood.
3. (obsolete) A bar of wood used to fasten a door.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.11:

     The Prince staid not his aunswere to devize, / But, opening streight the Sparre, forth to him came […].

4. (nautical) Any linear object used as a mast, sprit, yard, boom, pole or gaff.
5. (aeronautics) A beam-like structural member that supports ribs in an aircraft wing or other airfoil.

Translations

• Russian: столб

Translations

• German: Spiere, Rundholz
• Russian: ранго́ут

Translations

• Russian: лонжеро́н крыло

Verb

spar (spars, present participle sparring; past and past participle sparred)

1. (obsolete or dialectal) to bolt, bar.
2. (transitive) To supply or equip (a vessel) with spars.

Verb

spar (spars, present participle sparring; past and past participle sparred)

1. To fight, especially as practice for martial arts or hand-to-hand combat.
2. To strike with the feet or spurs, as cocks do.
3. To contest in words; to wrangle.

Translations

• Italian: allenarsi al combattimento
• Russian: спарринговать

Noun

spar (plural spars)

1. A sparring session; a preliminary fight, as in boxing or cock-fighting.

Noun

spar

1. (mineralogy) Any of various microcrystalline minerals, of light, translucent, or transparent appearance, which are easily cleft.
2. (mineralogy) Any crystal with readily discernible faces.

Translations

• French: spath
• German: Spat
• Russian: шпат
• Spanish: espato

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