Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗To bolt, bar. · To supply or equip (a vessel) with spars.
A rafter of a roof. · A thick pole or piece of wood. · A bar of wood used to fasten a door. · Any linear object used as a mast, sprit, yard, boom, pole or gaff.
From Middle English sparre (“spar, rafter, beam”) (noun), sparren (“to close, bar”) (verb), from Middle Dutch sparre or Middle Low German Sparre, all ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sparrô (“stake, beam”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)par- (“beam, log”). Compare Dutch spar (“balk”), German Sparren (“rafter, spar”), Danish sparre (“spar”), Albanian shparr, shpardh (“kind of oak”). Perhaps also compare spear.
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