WordWeb Online

1. Box lightly
    
2. Fight verbally
   "They were sparring all night"
    
3. Furnish with spars
    
4. Fight with spars
   "the gamecocks were sparring"

1. A stout rounded pole of wood or metal used to support rigging
    
2. Making the motions of attack and defence with the fists and arms; a part of training for a boxer
   - sparring
    
3. Any of various nonmetallic minerals (calcite or feldspar) that are light in colour and transparent or translucent and cleavable

Sounds like: soulless, soleles

Derived forms: spars, sparring, sparred

Type of: argue, box, boxing, contend, debate, equip, fence, fight, fisticuffs, fit, fit out, mineral, outfit, pole, pugilism, struggle

Part of: ship

Encyclopedia: Spar