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Sentence Examples The topgallant royal is a small spar which is often a continuation of the topgallant mast, and is fixed. When there was no one else to spar with, he and his brother Johnny, who's now 16, would flail at each other like mad bantams. So a sheet is a rope, a tack is a turn into the wind and the boom is the spar along the bottom of the sail. For instance, seeing O'Toole and Burton spar in the pro-cleric film Beckett helped inspire my studies of medieval history. The blade body consists of a spar assembly, leading edge protective strips, skins over a honeycomb core and a trailing edge strip. Beside it, another tense wooden spar holds an inscribed scarf and an enigmatic black tube resembling a rifle barrel. The karate practitioners spar with each other while kick boxers flex and twist their limbs. I'm probably being a bit or a worryguts for no good reason, but my spar now seems to have lost a bit of her appetite. Later that evening she stood before her father, prepared to spar in the training hall. He wanders into a local gym, sees world welterweight champion Yuri in the ring, and offers to spar with him. Maybe she could beat him in a spar match, but he wouldn't find out until the annual martial arts tournament at school. He was busy with the ropes, letting down just two yards of sail from the spar attached to the top of the mast. They were completely blown apart, and all-new spar extrusions and new ribs were built by Ken Hake in Kansas and shipped to New Zealand. As the school year approaches, the textbook retailers and e-tailers will continue to spar in an attempt to separate the boys from the men. Without the support of the bowsprit, the long spar that extends forward from the bow of the ship, there was no support for the masts. The trireme had 3 banks of oars, and a full spar deck instead of the centre-line gangway of the early bireme. Instead of putting fittings and turnbuckles on the streamlined tie-rod, he bent it and welded it to the spar of the stabilizer. The center section wing spar passed its non-destructive test with flying colors. In some swept-wing aircraft, stepped extrusions are employed as machining blanks for spar caps with integral attachment fittings. He cited as an example Huygens's hypothesis that the extraordinary ray in doubly-refracting Iceland spar is propagated elliptically. Show More Sentences Nodules filled with clear double-refractive Iceland spar with celadonite inclusions have also been found here. He spent two years there, in particular studying the double refraction Bartholin had discovered in Iceland spar crystal. This was due to an apparent structural weakness, and possible flutter, in the wing spar. Strain the frapping turns tightly and finish the lashing with a clove hitch around any convenient spar. Contained in a compact package inside the spar, the double-ended system allows crew to quickly power or depower the sail from the trapeze. But an island any less menacing would fail to breed a villain who could hope to spar with James Bond. The tournament is based on a round-robin model that allows four teams from the Hawkeye State to spar with four MIAC rivals for regional bragging rights. I suppose I had been naive to think that he was making himself available to me so I could spar with him or plumb the depths of his thought processes. Asked if the ability to reproduce should be a human right, spar said she would leave that for the philosophers to think about. One of the main advantages of the boat is the use of a mast and vertical spar to achieve the same mast height and sail area as the Bermuda rig would set. Pole or spar extending horizontally from the mast that holds the foot of the mainsail. A marker post or a spar may be installed on its downstream section, depending on its length. All crew were eventually stationed forward of the main spar to assist by their weight in maintaining trim. The side panels are fastened to the spar and ribs using blind mechanical fasteners. For the same reason keep clear of the overhang of the wing and wing spar so they won't clip you. Its narrow centre spar provides ski-like slide-and-glide action for getting over obstacles. The spar had actually twisted as a result of metal fatigue and failure. In the 1880 census they identified themselves as sailors, shipbuilders, ship carpenters, teamsters, wharfingers, inspectors of customs, spar makers, seamen, and sea captains. But her character quickly devolved into this shy, demure, hair care product spokesmodel, leaving Buck with little choice but to go off and hunt for guest stars to spar with. In what looks like an average onstage dissection of a relationship, a boyfriend and girlfriend who live together bicker and spar over trivialities. Show More Sentences Every point is held together by the spar that sticks up in the center. Fearing they would be blown into the island cliffs, the crew furled the main sail, then to lower the ship's profile further, Alexander ordered the main spar lowered. We got chatting at the gym and would sometimes spar together. By Monday, however, Santorum had learned to deflect questions on hot-button social issues rather than spar with potential voters. The American Civil War saw a number of innovations in naval warfare, including an early type of torpedo boat, armed with spar torpedoes. They mounted a single square sail on a yard, with an additional spar along the bottom of the sail. Frank compare the situation to that of male elks who use their antlers to spar with other males for mating rights. A switch to carbon fiber in the structural spar of the blade yields weight savings of 20 to 30 percent, or approximately 15 metric tons. Spars are moored to the seabed like TLPs, but whereas a TLP has vertical tension tethers, a spar has more conventional mooring lines. The world's deepest platform is currently the Perdido spar in the Gulf of Mexico, floating in 2,438 metres of water. A spar torpedo was a mine attached to a long pole and detonated when the ship carrying it rammed another one and withdrew a safe distance. The traditional boat building material used for hull and spar construction. The Norwegians initially planned to arm her with a spar torpedo, but this may never have been fitted. Most trainers do not allow boxers to train and spar without wrist wraps and boxing gloves. Upper Paoli beds reveal a well developed oolite bar containing large undeformed oolites with thick cortical rinds, in a very clear spar cement. Check all tires, including the spar tire, for condition and pressure. In 1864 Union Naval Lieutenant Cushing fitted a steam launch with a spar torpedo to attack the Confederate ironclad Albemarle. But Cruz followed Lee on the Senate floor to spar with McCain. A chaser was the man who unhooked the logs that were yarded in to the spar tree. One Viking innovation was the 'beitass', a spar mounted to the sail that allowed their ships to sail effectively against the wind. Show More Sentences Each main undercarriage leg is attached to the rear wing spar forward and to a gear beam aft, which itself is attached to the wing and the fuselage. Catamarans don't usually come with spar reefing systems so conventional slab reefing is used for the mainsail with a roller furling Genoa forward and an optional gennaker. The Confederate torpedo boats were armed with spar torpedoes. The mass of gilbertite in the specimens in my possession, is mixed with dark purple fluor spar, and with specks of another mineral, which has the aspect of apatite. The spar has more inherent stability than a TLP since it has a large counterweight at the bottom and does not depend on the mooring to hold it upright. There it designed, and used to produce, the composite wing spar for the Airbus A400M now produced at GKN's New purpose built Western Approach, Bristol site. This was a charge of powder in a waterproof case, mounted to the bow of the torpedo boat below the water line on a long spar. Previously the wholesaler used shrink-wrap to secure goods in the 8,000 roll cages used to deliver to its 380 Spar retailers. So far he has spent pounds 200 on hi-fi equipment plus some opera CDs for his Spar shop in Appley Bridge, near Wigan. Others use an airfoil on a pivoting spar, as with windsurfers. Morrice said Young was a long-standing colleague, having worked for 18 years at the former Scottish Spar retailer Watson and Philip, where Mortice was the sales director. Armed with a hammer and with his face covered by a ski mask, the robber struck at The Spar Store at Chapel House Shopping Centre in Newcastle, at just before 9pm on Saturday. Examples from Classical Literature He is eighteen years of age, and is a 'powder monkey' on Number Sixteen, a six-pounder on the spar deck. Thus calc spar is a common name for calcite, heavy spar for barite, needle spar for aragonite, and so on. Now, if we could but get a fresh spar for a topmast, we should soon be all ataunto. An amygdaloidal variety containing calcareous spar and zeolite occurs S. of Dudley. Now the refractive index of Iceland spar is, for the extraordinary ray less, and for the ordinary greater, than for Canada balsam. There are also spar works where the fluor-spar, or blue john, is wrought into a variety of useful and ornamental articles. This happens, for example, when green crystals of fluor spar afford blue reflections of light. A fore-topgallant studding-sail had been hauled on board the raft, and this set on a spar served them as a sail. At these places, it is most frequently connected with a gangue of heavy spar and calcareous spar, with pyrites of iron. None of us answered, and I ran down the spar to be ready for what might happen, when 'hola! You just spar with yourself and get limbered up, while I put some wood on the fire. When she appeared he caught her in his arms as if she were a spar and he a drowning sailor. Another cut a main spar on one of my wings, and another hit my stabilizer, tearing it half in two. The hulls were tied together athwartship by the deck beams of the gun deck and spar deck, except in the wake of the paddle wheel. Iceland spar is used chiefly in the optical instrument known as the polariscope. The Iceland spar has the power of polarizing light and producing great richness and variety of color. The paddle wheel was housed, the top fitted with stairs to the spar deck. True, they rather order me about some, and make me jump from spar to spar, like a grasshopper in a May meadow. Composed of heavy spar and the carbonate in equal proportions. A mixture of two parts of heavy spar and one of the plumbous compound. Show More Sentences Heeling is the square part of the spar through which the fid hole is cut. I answer that I write of what I saw, and that is not altered by a miscalled spar or a misunderstood manouvre. Every man and spar and oar on the vessel seemed burning in its light. The sheet is led aft to a spar that projects beyond the counter. Fluor spar is as favorable a gangue for lead as quartz is for gold. An arrowweed thicket had struggled up from a jutting spar of rock. A spar abaft the fore and main mast, for hoisting the trysail. So I cut down some trees and rigged a spar on the starboard and another on the port side, and fooled away upward of three hours trying to spar her off. Valerie Wade, a college student, fifth generation Oregonian, and daughter of a logger, had climbed to the top of a ninety-foot yarder spar pole to hang a banner. The group takes its name, Spar Posse on Tour, from the shop the youngsters used to hang around. Woolworths is deciding whether to call time on its new Spar partnership as it re-absorbs Woolworths' General Stores into its main chain portfolio. The semi-precious mineral Derbyshire Spar is better known as what? Find more words! 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What is the opposite of spar? Words that rhyme with spar What is the past tense of spar? What is the plural of spar? What is the adjective for spar? What is the noun for spar? Translations for spar Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words spans span of control spanning spanner spanned spann sparagmos sparaxis spare spared sparely spareness 4-letter Words Starting With s sp spa