A member of a kind of roof truss (a hammer-beam truss), so framed as not to have a tiebeam at the top of the wall. Each principal has two hammer beams, which occupy the situation, and to some extent serve the purpose, of a tiebeam.
A beam-like structural member that supports ribs in an aircraft wing or other airfoil.
Any crystal with readily discernible faces.
A rafter of a roof.
A thick pole or piece of wood.
A sparring session; a preliminary fight, as in boxing or cock-fighting.
Any of various microcrystalline minerals, of light, translucent, or transparent appearance, which are easily cleft.
Any linear object used as a mast, sprit, yard, boom, pole or gaff.
To contest in words; to wrangle.
To supply or equip (a vessel) with spars.
To fight, especially as practice for martial arts or hand-to-hand combat.
To strike with the feet or spurs, as cocks do.