If you spar with someone, you exchange light blows either literally by punching each other, or figuratively by exchanging verbal blows.
A general term any round piece of timber used as a mast, yard, boom, or gaff.
Noun
making the motions of attack and defense with the fists and arms; a part of training for a boxer
Noun
a stout rounded pole of wood or metal used to support rigging
Noun
any of various nonmetallic minerals (calcite or feldspar) that are light in color and transparent or translucent and cleavable
Verb
fight verbally; "They were sparring all night"
Verb
box lightly
Verb
fight with spurs; "the gamecocks were sparring"
Verb
furnish with spars
n.
An old name for a nonmetallic mineral, usually cleavable and
somewhat lustrous; as, calc spar, or calcite, fluor spar, etc. It was
especially used in the case of the gangue minerals of a metalliferous
vein.
v. t.
A general term any round piece of timber used as a mast,
yard, boom, or gaff.
v. t.
Formerly, a piece of timber, in a general sense; -- still
applied locally to rafters.
v. t.
The bar of a gate or door.
v. t.
To bolt; to bar.
v. t.
To To supply or equip with spars, as a vessel.
v. i.
To strike with the feet or spurs, as cocks do.
v. i.
To use the fists and arms scientifically in attack or
defense; to contend or combat with the fists, as for exercise or
amusement; to box.
v. i.
To contest in words; to wrangle.
n.
A contest at sparring or boxing.
n.
A movement of offense or defense in boxing.
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Spar
A general term any round piece of timber used as a mast, yard, boom, or gaff.
To bolt; to bar.
To strike with the feet or spurs, as cocks do.
A contest at sparring or boxing.
Usage Examples
I don't really think that there is anyone in the modern pop business who I feel I want to spar with.
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