unspar
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʌnˈspɑː(ɹ)/
Verb
unspar (third-person singular simple present unspars, present participle unsparring, simple past and past participle unsparred)
- (transitive) To take the spars, stakes, bolts or bars from.
- 1808 February 22, Walter Scott, “(please specify the introduction or canto number, or chapter name)”, in Marmion; a Tale of Flodden Field, Edinburgh: […] J[ames] Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Company, […]; London: William Miller, and John Murray, →OCLC:
- The lofty palisade unsparred
References
- “unspar”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.