heavy spar
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of heavy spar
First recorded in 1780–90
Example Sentences
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The amount of work involved in getting the long, heavy spar into position, with all its jungle of standing rigging, which looks to the uninstructed eye a hopeless mass of entanglement, is enormous.
From The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life by Bullen, Frank T.
Ordinary white lead is often mixed with considerable quantities of heavy spar, gypsum, or chalk.
From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Salter, Thomas
The thirteen beds followed each other in corresponding order, consisting of fluor-spar, heavy spar, galena, etc.
From The Student's Elements of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir
Barium sulphate, generally called heavy spar or barite.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah
A mixture of two parts of heavy spar and one of the plumbous compound.
From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Salter, Thomas
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