Crossword-Solution: SPAR
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| 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 | |
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| SPAR | anagram | APRS, ARPS, PARS, PRAS, RAPS, RASP |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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…
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…
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.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 1,386 times in crossword archives (1943–2025).