Squabble vs Spar - What's the difference?
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To participate in a minor fight or argument.
* I. Watts
(printing) To disarrange, so that the letters or lines stand awry and require readjustment.
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
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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.
Squabble is a related term of spar.
As nouns the difference between squabble and spar
is that squabble is a minor fight or argument as between children, for example while spar is claw.As a verb squabble
is to participate in a minor fight or argument.squabble
English
Derived terms
* squabblyVerb
(squabbl)- ''The brothers were always squabbling with each other.
- The sense of these propositions is very plain, though logicians might squabble a whole day whether they should rank them under negative or affirmative.
- to squabble type
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* squabblerspar
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.}}