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SPAR spar

Spelling: [spahr]

IPA: /spɑr/

Spar is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 39 anagrams from letters in SPAR (aprs).

Definitions for SPAR

noun

1. Nautical. a stout pole such as those used for masts, etc.; a mast, yard, boom, gaff, or the like.
2. Aeronautics. a principal lateral member of the framework of a wing of an airplane.
3. a motion of sparring.
4. a boxing match.
5. a dispute.
6. any of various more or less lustrous crystalline minerals:
7. (during World War II) a woman enlisted in the women's reserve of the U.S. Coast Guard (disbanded in 1946).

verb (used with object)

1. to provide or make with spars.

verb (used without object)

1. (of boxers) to make the motions of attack and defense with the arms and fists, especially as a part of training.
2. to box, especially with light blows.
3. to strike or attack with the feet or spurs, as gamecocks do.
4. to bandy words; dispute.

Origin of SPAR

1250-1300; Middle English sparre (noun); cognate with German Sparren, Dutch spar, Old Norse sparri

Examples for SPAR

But Cruz followed Lee on the Senate floor to spar with McCain.

The sheet is led aft to a spar that projects beyond the counter.

When she appeared he caught her in his arms as if she were a spar and he a drowning sailor.

But an island any less menacing would fail to breed a villain who could hope to spar with James Bond.

The man was placed horizontally on a base board beneath the spar.

Every man and spar and oar on the vessel seemed burning in its light.

spar has a new book titled The Baby Business: How Money, Science and Politics Drive the Commerce of Conception.

You just spar with yourself and get limbered up, while I put some wood on the fire.

By Monday, however, Santorum had learned to deflect questions on hot-button social issues rather than spar with potential voters.

Asked if the ability to reproduce should be a human right, spar said she would leave that for the philosophers to think about.