heavy+spar
11heavy — heaviness, n. /hev ee/, adj., heavier, heaviest, n., pl. heavies, adv. adj. 1. of great weight; hard to lift or carry: a heavy load. 2. of great amount, quantity, or size; extremely large; massive: a heavy vote; a heavy snowfall. 3. of great… …
12spar — spar1 [spär] n. [< MDu or MLowG, akin to OE spær(stan), gypsum, chalk] any shiny, crystalline, nonmetallic mineral that cleaves easily into chips or flakes spar2 [spär] n. [ME sparre < ON sparri or MDu sparre < IE base * sper , pole, rod …
13spar — Ⅰ. spar [1] ► NOUN ▪ a thick, strong pole such as is used for a mast or yard on a ship. ORIGIN shortening of Old French esparre, or from Old Norse. Ⅱ. spar [2] ► VERB (sparred, sparring …
14spar — 1. n. 1 a stout pole esp. used for the mast, yard, etc. of a ship. 2 the main longitudinal beam of an aeroplane wing. Phrases and idioms: spar buoy a buoy made of a spar with one end moored so that the other stands up. spar deck the light upper… …
15spar — spar1 noun a thick, strong pole such as is used for a mast or yard on a ship. ↘the main longitudinal beam of an aircraft wing. Origin ME: shortening of OFr. esparre, or from ON sperra. spar2 verb (spars, sparring, sparred) 1》 make the motions of… …
16Ponderous spar — Ponderous Pon der*ous, a. [L. ponderosus, from pondus, eris, a weight: cf. F. pond[ e]reux. See {Ponder}.] 1. Very heavy; weighty; as, a ponderous shield; a ponderous load; the ponderous elephant. [1913 Webster] The sepulcher . . . Hath oped his… …
17Brent Spar — or Brent E, was a North Sea oil storage and tanker loading buoy in the Brent oilfield, operated by Shell UK. With the completion of a pipeline connection to the oil terminal at Sullom Voe in Shetland, the storage facility had continued in use but …
18Brent Spar — ▪ 1996 During 1995 an abandoned North Sea oil storage platform known as Brent Spar was at the centre of an international dispute over the safe disposal of waste material. In the spring, members of the environmental group Greenpeace occupied …
19C-spar — A spanwise structural member along a helicopter rotor blade between the D nose and the main spar, closed at the front and open at the rear. The D nose is the strong airfoil leading edge of a rotor, formed from heavy skin and spar. See also D nose …
20heavyspar — heavy spar n. See barite. * * * …
