Index of English words, starting with "sp"

(1) - Spanner (n.) A contrivance in some of the ealier steam engines for moving the valves for the alternate admission and shutting off of the steam.
(2) - Spanner (n.) An iron instrument having a jaw to fit a nut or the head of a bolt, and used as a lever to turn it with; a wrench; specifically, a wrench for unscrewing or tightening the couplings of hose.
(3) - Spanner (n.) The lock of a fusee or carbine; also, the fusee or carbine itself.
(4) - Spanner (n.) One who, or that which, spans.

(1) - Spanworm (n.) The larva of any geometrid moth, as the cankeworm; a geometer; a measuring worm.

(1) - Spar (n.) A movement of offense or defense in boxing.
(2) - Spar (n.) A contest at sparring or boxing.
(3) - Spar (v. i.) To contest in words; to wrangle.
(4) - Spar (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.
(5) - Spar (v. i.) To strike with the feet or spurs, as cocks do.
(6) - Spar (v. t.) To To supply or equip with spars, as a vessel.
(7) - Spar (v. t.) To bolt; to bar.
(8) - Spar (v. t.) The bar of a gate or door.
(9) - Spar (v. t.) Formerly, a piece of timber, in a general sense; -- still applied locally to rafters.
(10) - Spar (v. t.) A general term any round piece of timber used as a mast, yard, boom, or gaff.
(11) - Spar (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.