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heavy spar

noun

Mineralogy.


heavy spar

noun

  1. another name for barytes
“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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Origin of heavy spar1

First recorded in 1780–90
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Thames sailing barges still drift, as in TS Eliot’s The Waste Land, down Greenwich reach, past the Isle of Dogs: “With the turning tide/ Red sails/ Wide/ To leeward, swing on the heavy spar.”

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The heavy spar, which had been bumping heavily against the side, fell clear.

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Barium sulphate, generally called heavy spar or barite.

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The bowsprit was crossed by a heavy spar, on which a square-sail was hoisted.

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The Kentucky galena cannot be economically separated from the containing heavy spar.

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