Usually means: Training fight for practice, skill.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. spar: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. SPAR, spar: Merriam-Webster
  3. spar, spar, spar: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. SPAR, spar, spar, spar: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. spar: Collins English Dictionary
  6. spar: Vocabulary.com
  7. Spar, spar: Wordnik
  8. spar: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. spar: Wiktionary
  10. spar: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. Spar, spar: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. spar: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. SPAR: Dictionary.com
  14. spar (n.1), spar (n.2), spar (v): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. spar: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. SPAR (platform), SPAR, Spar (aeronautics), Spar (aviation), Spar (disambiguation), Spar (mineralogy), Spar (platform), Spar (retailer), Spar (sailing), Spar (tree), Spar: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Spar: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. spar: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. spar: Rhymezone
  20. Spar, spar (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. spar: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. spar: FreeDictionary.org
  23. spar: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  24. spar: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. SPAR: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Spar (sail), Spar (sailing), Spar (store), spar: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SPAR: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Spar (sail), Spar (sailing), Spar (store), spar: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Hypermedia Glossary Of Genetic Terms (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. SPAR: Acronym Finder
  2. spar: A Word A Day
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. spar: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SPAR: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia
  2. SPAR: A Dictionary of Quaternary Acronyms and Abbreviations

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. spar, spar, spar: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. spar: Urban Dictionary

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Spar: Card Games
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  3. Spar: Sports Definitions

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  2. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Spar: Latitude Mexico
  4. Sandahl, Middle English Sea Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A rafter of a roof.
noun:  A thick pole or piece of wood.
noun:  (obsolete) A bar of wood used to fasten a door.
noun:  (nautical) Any linear object used as a mast, sprit, yard, boom, pole or gaff.
noun:  (aeronautics) A beam-like structural member that supports ribs in an aircraft wing or other airfoil.
verb:  (obsolete or dialectal) To bolt, bar.
verb:  (transitive) To supply or equip (a vessel) with spars.
verb:  To fight, especially as practice for martial arts or hand-to-hand combat.
verb:  To strike with the feet or spurs, as cocks do.
verb:  To contest in words; to wrangle.
noun:  A sparring session; a preliminary fight, as in boxing or cock-fighting.
noun:  (MLE) A friend, a mate, a pal.
noun:  (mineralogy) Any of various microcrystalline minerals, of light, translucent, or transparent appearance, which are easily cleft.
noun:  (mineralogy) Any crystal with readily discernible faces.
noun:  A surname.

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