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heavy spar
heavy spar
noun
- another name for barytes
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yvlog History and Origins
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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