Spar

Chamber's Twientieth Century Dictionary · 1908 · p. 101

spär, n. a rafter: a general term for masts, yards, booms, and gaffs, .— n. Spar′-deck , the upper deck of a ve el. [The A.S. spearra is a umed from the verb sparrian , to fasten with a bar; cf. Ice. sparri , Dut. spar .]