Hypertext Webster Gateway: "spar"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

2. To To supply or equip with spars, as a vessel.

Note: A vessel equipped with spars that are too large or too
small is said to be oversparred or undersparred.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

{Blue spar}, {Cube spar}, etc. See under {Blue}, {Cube}, etc.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

2. 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.

Made believe to spar at Paul with great science.
--Dickens.

3. To contest in words; to wrangle. [Colloq.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

2. (Arch.) Formerly, a piece of timber, in a general sense;
-- still applied locally to rafters.

3. The bar of a gate or door. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

{Spar buoy} (Naut.), a buoy anchored by one end so that the
other end rises above the surface of the water.

{Spar deck} (Naut.), the upper deck of a vessel; especially,
in a frigate, the deck which is continued in a straight
line from the quarter-deck to the forecastle, and on which
spare spars are usually placed. See under {Deck}.

{Spar torpedo} (Naut.), a torpedo carried on the end of a
spar usually projecting from the bow of a vessel, and
intended to explode upon contact with an enemy's ships.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

2. A movement of offense or defense in boxing.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

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