- Look up
spar in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Spar commonly refers to:
Spar (sailing), part of a
sailing vessel Spar (aeronautics), part of an aircraft...
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SPAR,
originally "DESPAR",
styled as "DE
SPAR" (Dutch pronunciation: [də
ˈspɑr]), is a
Dutch multinational franchise that
provides branding,
supplies and...
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sometimes called sparring. The
physical nature of
sparring naturally varies with the
nature of the
skills it is
intended to develop;
sparring in a striking...
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SPARS was the
authorized nickname for the
United States Coast Guard (USCG) Women's Reserve. The
nickname is an
acronym fashioned from the USCG's motto...
- A
spar is a
marine structure, used for
floating oil/gas platforms.
Named after navigation channel Spar buoys,
spar platforms were
developed as an extreme...
- A
spar torpedo is a
weapon consisting of a bomb
placed at the end of a long pole, or
spar, and
attached to a boat. The
weapon is used by
running the end...
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Spar is an old
mining or
mineralogy term used to
refer to
crystals that have
readily discernible faces. A
spar will
easily break or
cleave into rhomboidal...
- A
spar tree is the tree used as the
highest anchor point in a high lead
cable logging setup. The
spar tree is
selected based on height,
location and especially...
- In a fixed-wing aircraft, the
spar is
often the main
structural member of the wing,
running spanwise at
right angles (or
thereabouts depending on wing...
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USCGC Spar is the name of two
United States Coast Guard buoy tenders: USCGC
Spar (WLB-403),
commissioned in 1944,
decommissioned in 1997 and scuttled...
