spar buoy
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Here she hung a while, stern high in air, like a huge, weighted spar buoy.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 11, 2012
With that squall rushing from the eastward and the tide making flood, any man who would leave the protection of the spar buoy for the purpose of unloading was fit for a lunatic asylum.
From The Veiled Lady and Other Men and Women by Smith, Francis Hopkinson
A glance in the direction indicated showed the boys an object like a spar buoy apparently standing upright in the water.
From Boy Scouts in the North Sea The Mystery of a Sub by Ralphson, G. Harvey (George Harvey)
I was above it, looking over an undulating sea of cloud bank from which the tower rose, massive and mighty, apparently floating on end, like an immense spar buoy at the turn of the tide.
From The Grain Ship by Robertson, Morgan
Watch for a black spar buoy off the lighthouse.
From The Adventure Club Afloat by Barbour, Ralph Henry
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