·vt The bar of a gate or door.
II. Spar ·noun A contest at sparring or boxing.
III. Spar ·noun A movement of offense or defense in boxing.
IV. Spar ·vt To To supply or equip with spars, as a vessel.
V. Spar ·vi To strike with the feet or spurs, as cocks do.
VI. Spar ·vi To contest in words; to Wrangle.
VII. Spar ·vt To Bolt; to Bar.
VIII. Spar ·vt A general term any round piece of timber used as a mast, yard, boom, or gaff.
IX. Spar ·vt Formerly, a piece of timber, in a general sense;
— still applied locally to rafters.
X. Spar ·vi 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.
XI. Spar ·noun 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.