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noun

  • A rafter of a roof.
  • A thick pole or piece of wood.
  • A bar of wood used to fasten a door.
  • Any linear object used as a mast, sprit, yard, boom, pole or gaff.
  • A beam-like structural member that supports ribs in an aircraft wing or other airfoil.

verb

  • To bolt, bar.
  • To supply or equip (a vessel) with spars.

noun

  • A sparring session; a preliminary fight, as in boxing or cock-fighting.

verb

  • To fight, especially as practice for martial arts or hand-to-hand combat.
  • To strike with the feet or spurs, as cocks do.
  • To contest in words; to wrangle.

noun

  • Any of various microcrystalline minerals, of light, translucent, or transparent appearance, which are easily cleft.
  • Any crystal with readily discernible faces.

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