Cryptic crossword clue
Ship’s rigging in boxes 5

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word SPARS

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What does SPARS mean?

1. A rafter of a roof.
2. A thick pole or piece of wood.
3. A bar of wood used to fasten a door.
4. Any linear object used as a mast, sprit, yard, boom, pole or gaff.
5. A beam-like structural member that supports ribs in an aircraft wing or other airfoil.

1. To bolt, bar.
2. To supply or equip (a vessel) with spars.

1. A sparring session; a preliminary fight, as in boxing or cock-fighting.

1. To fight, especially as practice for martial arts or hand-to-hand combat.
2. To strike with the feet or spurs, as cocks do.
3. To contest in words; to wrangle.

1. Any of various microcrystalline minerals, of light, translucent, or transparent appearance, which are easily cleft.
2. Any crystal with readily discernible faces.

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