vt the bar of a gate or door.
2. spar ·noun a contest at sparring or boxing.
3. spar ·noun a movement of offense or defense in boxing.
4. spar ·vt to to supply or equip with spars, as a vessel.
5. spar ·vi to strike with the feet or spurs, as cocks do.
6. spar ·vi to contest in words; to wrangle.
7. spar ·vt to bolt; to bar.
8. spar ·vt a general term any round piece of timber used as a mast, yard, boom, or gaff.
9. spar ·vt formerly, a piece of timber, in a general sense;
still applied locally to rafters.
10. 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.
11. 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.