spar

noun9

1. •
   A rafter of a roof.
2. •
   A thick pole or piece of wood.
3. •
   Any linear object used as a mast, sprit, yard, boom, pole or gaff.
4. •
   A sparring session; a preliminary fight, as in boxing or cock-fighting.
5. •
   A beam-like structural member that supports ribs in an aircraft wing or other airfoil.
6. •
   Any of various microcrystalline minerals, of light, translucent, or transparent appearance, which are easily cleft.
7. •
   Any crystal with readily discernible faces.
8. •
   (slang) A friend, a mate, a pal.

   • KLASHNEKOFF: I take two glass then pass the spliff to my spars. — 2002
9. •
   (no longer used) A bar of wood used to fasten a door.

   • The Prince staid not his aunswere to devize, / But, opening streight the Sparre, forth to him came […]. — 1596

verb5

1. •
   To fight, especially as practice for martial arts or hand-to-hand combat.
2. •
   To strike with the feet or spurs, as cocks do.
3. •
   To contest in words; to wrangle.
4. •
   To supply or equip (a vessel) with spars.
5. •
   (dialect, no longer used) To bolt, bar.

   • The church dores were sparred, Fast boltyd and barryd, Yet wyth a prety gyn I fortuned to come in, […] — 1503

phrase1

1. •
   (UK) Initialism of signal passed at red.