spar

noun · verbA1

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noun

Plural noun:

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.
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.
6.
A sparring session; a preliminary fight, as in boxing or cock-fighting.
7.
(Multicultural London English)(MLE) A friend, a mate, a pal.
8.
(countable, uncountable)(mineralogy) Any of various microcrystalline minerals, of light, translucent, or transparent appearance, which are easily cleft.
9.
(countable, uncountable)(mineralogy) Any crystal with readily discernible faces.

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verb

V_es/s

spars

V_ing/Gerund

sparring

V_ed/pp

sparred

1.
(dialectal, obsolete)(obsolete or dialectal) To bolt, bar.
2.
(transitive)To supply or equip (a vessel) with spars.
3.
To fight, especially as practice for martial arts or hand-to-hand combat.
4.
To strike with the feet or spurs, as cocks do.
5.
To contest in words; to wrangle.

Nguồn gốc từ

odt frk osx From Middle English sparre (spar, rafter, beam) (noun), sparren (to close, bar) (verb), from Middle Dutch sparre or Sparre, all ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sparrô (stake, beam), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)par- (beam, log). Compare spar balk, Sparren, sparre spar, shparr, shpardh (kind of oak). Perhaps also compare spear.