A rafter of a roof.
A sparring session; a preliminary fight, as in boxing or cock-fighting.
Any of various microcrystalline minerals, of light, translucent, or transparent appearance, which are easily cleft.
To bolt, bar.
The church dores were sparred, Fast boltyd and barryd, Yet wyth a prety gyn I fortuned to come in, […]
Initialism of signal passed at red.
A surname.
From Middle English sparre (“spar, rafter, beam”) (noun), sparren (“to close, bar”) (verb), from Middle Dutch sparre or Middle Low German Sparre, all ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sparrô (“stake, be...
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To supply or equip (a vessel) with spars.
To fight, especially as practice for martial arts or hand-to-hand combat.
After early sparring, Spurs started to take control as the interval approached and twice came close to taking the lead. Terry blocked Rafael van der Vaart's header on the line and the same player saw his cross strike the post after Adebayor was unable to apply a touch.