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Joust vs Spar - What's the difference?

joust | spar |

As nouns the difference between joust and spar

is that joust is a tilting match: a mock combat between two mounted knights or men-at-arms using lances in the lists or enclosed field while spar is claw.

As a verb joust

is to engage in mock combat on horseback, as two knights in the lists; to tilt.

joust

English

(Jousting)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A tilting match: a mock combat between two mounted knights or men-at-arms using lances in the lists or enclosed field.

    • Synonyms

    * tilt

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To engage in mock combat on horseback, as two knights in the lists; to tilt.

    • Derived terms

    * jouster

    spar

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) . Perhaps also compare (l), (l).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A rafter of a roof.
  • A thick pole or piece of wood.
  • (obsolete) A bar of wood used to fasten a door.
  • * 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.11:
    • The Prince staid not his aunswere to devize, / But, opening streight the Sparre , forth to him came […].
  • (nautical) A general term denoting any linear object used as a mast, sprit, yard, boom, pole or gaff.
  • (aeronautics) A beam-like structural member that supports ribs in an aircraft wing or other airfoil.
    • Derived terms
    * spar buoy * spar deck * spar torpedo

    Verb

  • (obsolete, or, dialectal) to bolt, bar.
  • To supply or equip (a vessel) with spars.
    • Derived terms
    * oversparred, undersparred

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Verb

    (sparr)
  • To fight, especially as practice for martial arts or hand-to-hand combat.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=April 15 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Tottenham 1-5 Chelsea , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=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.}}
  • To strike with the feet or spurs, as cocks do.
  • To contest in words; to wrangle.

    • Etymology 3

    From (etyl) spar, .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (mineralogy) any of various microcrystalline minerals, of light, translucent, or transparent blee, which are easily cleft
  • (mineralogy) any crystal with no readily discernible faces.

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