spar

1. (verb) fight verbally; "They were sparring all night"
Related Words: argue, contend, debate, fence

2. (verb) box lightly
Related Words: box

3. (verb) fight with spurs; of gamecocks in cockfights
Related Words: fight, struggle

4. (noun) a stout rounded pole of wood or metal used to support rigging
Related Words: boom, bowsprit, dolphin striker, gaff, jibboom, martingale, mast, pole, sprit, yard

5. (noun) any of various nonmetallic minerals (calcite or feldspar) that are light in color and transparent or translucent and cleavable
Related Words: calcite, feldspar, felspar, mineral



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