spar
noun
a stout pole such as those used for masts, etc.; a mast, yard, boom, gaff, or the like.
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The ruined cedars trailed from sparlike tops their sweeping sails of incrusted emerald and silver.
From The Reign of Law; a tale of the Kentucky hemp fields by James Lane Allen