Word Finder - spars

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A rafter of a roof.

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A thick pole or piece of wood.

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A bar of wood used to fasten a door.

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Any linear object used as a mast, sprit, yard, boom, pole or gaff.

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A beam-like structural member that supports ribs in an aircraft wing or other airfoil.

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To bolt, bar.

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To supply or equip (a vessel) with spars.

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

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To fight, especially as practice for martial arts or hand-to-hand combat.

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To strike with the feet or spurs, as cocks do.

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To contest in words; to wrangle.

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Any of various microcrystalline minerals, of light, translucent, or transparent appearance, which are easily cleft.

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Any crystal with readily discernible faces.

Steel tube frames, spruce spars and ribs, covered with fabric.

Small masts and spars are often made of it, and are said to be lighter than those of pine.

But Villeneuve's ill-appointed ships, manned by raw crews, suffered loss of spars in a gale, and he returned to Toulon on the 21st.

In experiments with magnifying glasses, and through spars, the ordinary effects of magnifying and of alteration of view are sometimes produced; sometimes they are not.

Tromp, conscious that his ships were weaker in build, at first drew away, firing at the spars of the English ships in order to cripple them.

The barrier was originally formed of a number of long square wooden spars which could be readily handled by one man, being inclined slightly - from the vertical and placed close together for shutting the weir; but panels of wood or sheetiron closing the space between adjacent frames and sliding in grooves at the sides, and rolling-up curtains ?

Rule Iv.-Cutting Away Wreck Loss or damage caused by cutting away the wreck or remains of spars, or of other things which have previously been carried away by sea-peril, shall not be made good as G.A.

Rule Vi.-Carrying Press Of Sail-Damage To Or Loss Of Sails Damage to or loss of sails and spars, or either of them, caused by forcing a ship off the ground or by driving her higher up the ground, for the common safety, shall be made good as G.A.; but where a ship is afloat, no loss or damage caused to the ship, cargo and freight, or any of them, by carrying a press of sail, shall be made good as G.A.

One-third to be deducted off repairs to and renewal of woodwork of hull, masts and spars, furniture, upholstery, crockery, metal and glassware, also sails, rigging, ropes, sheets and hawsers (other than wire and chain), awnings, covers and painting.

Deductions as above under clause B, except that one-sixth be deducted off ironwork of masts and spars, and machinery (inclusive of boilers and their mountings) .

Deductions as above under clause C, except that one-third be deducted off ironwork of masts and spars, repairs to and renewal of all machinery (inclusive of boilers and their mountings), and all hawsers, ropes, sheets and rigging.

Such efforts involve an abnormal use which is likely to cause damage to sails and spars, or to engines and boilers; and they are treated as acts of sacrifice.

From the coast to the eastern base of the Cascade Mountains the state is heavily timbered, except in small prairies and clearings in the Willamette and other valleys, and the most important tree is the great Douglas fir, pine or spruce (Pseudotsuga Douglasii), commonly called Oregon pine, which sometimes grows to a height of 300 ft., and which was formerly in great demand for masts and spars of sailing-vessels and for bridge timbers; the Douglas fir grows more commercial timber to the acre than any other American variety, and constitutes about five-sevenths of the total stand of the state.

The term is also used of structures resembling these articles, especially of the framework of booms, spars and netting forming a protection for a warship against torpedo attack.

They have forward and aft braced spars with integral aluminum ribs.

Some of these were originally ship's spars and still had sheaves for the running rigging to pass through.

Coppicing, in which thin tree stems were cut and used as thatching spars and hedging binders, still takes place.

Inside, the changes are less dramatic than expected, with a new dash that retains the trademark vertical wooden spars.

The wings had spruce spars (either laminated or in one piece ).

Some of these were originally ship 's spars and still had sheaves for the running rigging to pass through.

The wings had spruce spars (either laminated or in one piece).

Surrounding the green is a space called a ditch, which is nearly but not quite on a level with the green and slopes gently away from it, the side next the turf being lined with boarding, the ditch itself bottomed with wooden spars resting on the foundation.

The wood is strong, light and very elastic, forming an excellent material for small masts and spars, for which purpose the trunks are used in America, and exported largely to England.

To secure these conditions free exposure to light and air is requisite; but in the case of coppices and woods, or where long straight spars are needed by the forester, plants are allowed to grow thickly so as to ensure development in an upward rather than in a lateral direction.