spar buoy

noun

1. nautical a buoy resembling a vertical log

Example Sentences

A glance in the direction indicated showed the boys an object like a spar buoy apparently standing upright in the water.

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He had paid out nearly two miles of cord, when the top kite, a little two-footer, stood straight over the spar buoy in Newark Bay.

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The spar buoy (fig. 50) may be adopted for situations where strong tides or currents prevail.

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There's a black-and-red spar buoy there, as you see, but we haven't sighted it.

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