spar buoy
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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"We plan to mount Makani's kite on a small spar buoy moored with a synthetic line and gravity anchor," says the firm's chief executive, Fort Felker.
From BBC
Here she hung a while, stern high in air, like a huge, weighted spar buoy.
From Scientific American
She took up her position close to the black spar buoy at the harbor entrance, and one by one the contestants chugged up to her and clamored for their ratings.
From Project Gutenberg
I just wanted to get sight of a spar buoy about here.
From Project Gutenberg
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 Project Gutenberg
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