n. A stick or piece of wood of considerable length in proportion to its thickness; a stout pole; a large cudgel.n. A bar used for fastening a gate or door, or the like; hence, a bolt.n. Specifically— A round stick of timber, or a stout pole, such as those used for the masts, yards, booms, etc., of ships. and for the masts and jibs of derricks.n. One of the common rafters of a roof, as distinguished from the principal rafters; also, one of the sticks used as rafters in a thatched roof.n. A pole lashed to a carriage to hold it up, in place of a disabled wheel.To shut, close, or fasten with a bar or a bolt; bar; fasten in any way.To furnish with or form by the use of spars; supply a spar or spars to: as, to spar a ship or a mast.To aid (a vessel) over a shallow bar by the use of spars and tackles: a device frequently in use on the western rivers of the United States.n. In mineralogy, a general term formerly employed, but rather vaguely, to include a large number of crystalline minerals having a bright but non-metallic luster, especially when breaking readily into fragments with smooth surfaces.To rush forward in attack; make an onset.To rise and strike with the shanks or spurs; fight, as cocks, with the spurs protected with leather pads, so that the birds cannot injure each other.To make the motions of attack and defense with the arms and closed fists; use the hands in or as if in boxing, either with or without boxing-gloves; practise boxing.To bandy words; engage in a wordy contest, either angrily or humorously.n. A preliminary sparring action: a flourish of the arms and fists in putting one's self in the attitude of boxing.n. A sparring-match; a contest of boxing or striking; also, a cock-fight in which the contending cocks are not permitted to do each other serious harm, or in which they have their spurs covered with stuffed leather pods, so that they cannot cut each other.n. A wordy contest; a skirmish of words.n. A sparoid fish; any species of Sparus. Rawlinson, Anc. Egypt.
