Definitions for sparry

sparry spar·ry

Spelling: [spahr-ee]
IPA: /ˈspɑr i/

Sparry is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 73 anagrams from letters in sparry (aprrsy).

Definitions for sparry

adjective

  1. of or relating to mineral spar.

Origin of sparry

First recorded in 1685-95; spar3 + -y1

Examples for sparry

I should like to live in a sparry grot, and sleep upon a couch of sweet leaves!'

Spathic Iron Ore.—Carbonate of iron, when found in a comparatively pure and crystallized state, is known as spathic or sparry.

Stamped and washed carbonate of iron (sparry iron ore) is now added, in the proportion of about 10 per cent.

Cliffs of sparry limestone rise in the rear of the site we had selected, to an elevation of near three hundred feet.

In cooling, one exhibits a sparry, crystalline structure, the other that of clay.

Its bed is rough above, and it bursts forth from its cavern in dazzling foam, and falls in one sparry sheet to the gulf.

The compact carbonate of iron has no relation externally with the sparry variety.

Or the mineral may have been sparry iron ore, which is readily converted into steel.

Word Value for sparry
Scrable

11

Words with friends

11

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