sparre

sparre (plural sparres)

1. Obsolete form of spar.

• Rapers, parers, parser, rapers, rasper, sparer

From Middle Low German or Middle Dutch sparre, from Proto-West Germanic *sparrō, from Proto-Germanic *sparrô.

• spare, sparr, spere, sperr, sperre

• IPA^(key): /ˈspar(ə)/

sparre (plural sparres)

1. spar, rafter
2. pole, mast
3. (heraldry) chevron

• sparren

• English: spar
• Scots: spar

• “sparre, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

sparre

1. Alternative form of sparren (“to close”)

From Old Swedish sparre, from Old Norse sparri, from Proto-Germanic *sparrô.

sparre c

1. a rafter
2. (heraldry) a chevron

• sparre in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
• sparre in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)