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# spar

«spar» in Mova's school dictionary: **a long pole, such as the wooden beam of a ship's mast or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

1) A spar is a long pole, such as the wooden beam of a ship's mast or a piece of wood holding up a sail. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spar/#m1)

2) A spar is a kind of shiny crystal rock found in caves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spar/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in tales a spar is a broken piece of wood a shipwreck victim clings to; in the rock sense it is a glittering stone in caves

### examples

- The boy held on to a broken spar in the sea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spar/#x1)
- The cave walls were decorated with sparkling spar. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spar/#x2)
- The sailor lashed the spar to the mast. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spar/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «spar» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spar/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.