Spar vs Snar - What's the difference?
spar | snar |
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:
(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.
(obsolete, or, dialectal) to bolt, bar.
To supply or equip (a vessel) with spars.
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
To strike with the feet or spurs, as cocks do.
To contest in words; to wrangle.
(mineralogy) any of various microcrystalline minerals, of light, translucent, or transparent blee, which are easily cleft
(mineralogy) any crystal with no readily discernible faces.
In obsolete terms the difference between spar and snar
is that spar is a bar of wood used to fasten a door while snar is to snarl.As verbs the difference between spar and snar
is that spar is to bolt, bar while snar is to snarl.As a noun spar
is a rafter of a roof.spar
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . Perhaps also compare (l), (l).Noun
(en noun)- The Prince staid not his aunswere to devize, / But, opening streight the Sparre , forth to him came […].
Derived terms
* spar buoy * spar deck * spar torpedoVerb
Derived terms
* oversparred, undersparredEtymology 2
From (etyl) .Verb
(sparr)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.}}