Crossword-Solution: SPAR 4 letters, 633 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

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Word Word Type Definition
Spar n. 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.
Spar v. t. A general term any round piece of timber used as a mast,
yard, boom, or gaff.
Spar v. t. Formerly, a piece of timber, in a general sense; -- still
applied locally to rafters.
Spar v. t. The bar of a gate or door.
Spar v. t. To bolt; to bar.
Spar v. t. To To supply or equip with spars, as a vessel.
Spar v. i. To strike with the feet or spurs, as cocks do.
Spar v. i. 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.
Spar v. i. To contest in words; to wrangle.
Spar n. A contest at sparring or boxing.
Spar n. A movement of offense or defense in boxing.

Anagrams

Word Anagrams
SPAR anagram APRS, ARPS, PARS, PRAS, RAPS, RASP

We have 633 clues for the answer “SPAR”

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"Semper Paratus" is her motto 1 answer
Boxing practice session 1 answer
Airplane wing supporter 1 answer
An enlisted woman. 1 answer
Anagram for raps 1 answer
Another W.W. II woman 1 answer
Argue a bit 1 answer
BANDY with words 1 answer
Bandy words about 1 answer
Bath Oliver's last in box 1 answer
Battle with words 1 answer
Be a partner to Rocky, say 1 answer
Bicker (with) 1 answer
Bicker or banter 1 answer
Boom on a boat, e.g. 1 answer
Boom or bowsprit 1 answer
Boom or box 1 answer
Boom or gaff 1 answer
Boom, for example 1 answer
Box a bit 1 answer
Box at less than 100 percent 1 answer
Box before a bout 1 answer
Box cautiously 1 answer
Box cleverly. 1 answer
Box craftily. 1 answer
Box for a drill 1 answer
Box for fitness 1 answer
Box for fun 1 answer
Box for practice 1 answer
Box for training purposes 1 answer
Box gently 1 answer
Box in training 1 answer
Box lightly 1 answer
Box on a mat 1 answer
Box or boom 1 answer
Box or mast 1 answer
Box to train 1 answer
Box with a hired partner 1 answer
Box with a partner 1 answer
Box with a trainer 1 answer
Box with caution. 1 answer
Box with headgear 1 answer
Box with headgear, maybe 1 answer
Box with headgear, perhaps 1 answer
Box without a prize 1 answer
Box without a ref 1 answer
Box without harmful intentions 1 answer
Box, but not seriously 1 answer
Box, perhaps 1 answer
Box; mineral; pole 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERAET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SPAR (5)

Amid the Tree now got, where plentie hung Tempting so nigh, to pluck and eat my fill I spar’d not, for such pleasure till that hour At Feed or Fountain never had I found.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
Since the Cavaliere’s report of her condition she had somewhat smoothed and trimmed the exuberance of her distress, but she was evidently in extreme tribulation, and she clutched Rowland by his two hands, as if, in the shipwreck of her hopes, he were her single floating spar.
Roderick Hudson Henry James 2006
Shot after shot went hissing through the air after her; a number tore through the sails or rigging, but not a spar was touched nor an important rope cut.
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue Various 2008
The riotous powwow of setting a spar was going on down on the forecastle, and I went down there and stood around in the way--or mostly skipping out of it--till the mate suddenly roared a general order for somebody to bring him a capstan bar.
Life On The Mississippi, Complete Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 2006
When the _Smeaton_ drifted on the 2nd of this month such a spar would have been sufficient to save us till she could have come to our relief.
Records of a Family of Engineers Robert Louis Stevenson 2010

Quotes with SPAR (3)

It was not death, for I stood up, And all the dead lie down; It was not night, for all the bells Put out their tongues, for noon. It was not frost, for on my flesh I felt siroccos crawl, Nor fire, for just my marble feet Could keep a chancel cool. And yet it tasted like them all; The figures I have seen Set orderly, for burial, Reminded me of mine, As if my life were shaven And fitted to a frame, And could not breathe without a key; And I was like midnight, some, When everyth…
Emily Dickinson I'm Nobody! Who Are You?
He chose The Metamorphosis over The Trial, he chose Bartleby over Moby-Dick, he chose A Simple Heart over Bouvard and Pecuchet, and A Christmas Carol over A Tale of Two Cities or The Pickwick Papers. What a sad paradox, thought Amalfitano. Now even bookish pharmacists are afraid to take on the great, imperfect, torrential works, books that blaze paths into the unknown. They choose the perfect exercises of the great masters. Or what amounts to the same thing: they want to watc…
Roberto Bolano 2666
His reading suggested a man swimming in the sea among the wreckage of his ship, and trying to save his life by greedily clutching first at one spar and then at another.
Anton Chekhov
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Used 1,386 times in crossword archives (1943–2025).