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spar buoy

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noun

  1. nautical a buoy resembling a vertical log

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

Watch for a black spar buoy off the lighthouse.

From The Adventure Club Afloat by Barbour, Ralph Henry

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

They yearn from tide flats to the spar buoy in the harbor channel, thence through Hull Gut to the rocky bottoms about the Brewsters.

From Old Plymouth Trails by Packard, Winthrop

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)

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