Definitions
making the motions of attack and defense with the fists and arms; a part of training for a boxer
Word origin
From Middle English sparre (“spar, rafter, beam”) (noun), sparren (“to close, bar”) (verb), from Middle Dutch sparre or Middle Low German Sparre, all ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sparrô (“stake, beam”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)par- (“beam, log”). Compare Dutch spar (“balk”), German Sparren (“rafter, spar”), Danish sparre (“spar”), Albanian shparr, shpardh (“kind of oak”). Perhaps also compare spear.
Used in a sentence
“The Prince staid not his aunswere to devize, / But, opening streight the Sparre, forth to him came […].”
“The church dores were sparred, Fast boltyd and barryd, Yet wyth a prety gyn I fortuned to come in, […]”
“KLASHNEKOFF: I take two glass then pass the spliff to my spars.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“To practice boxing”4 letters
02“Practice boxing”4 letters
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