Meanings of float spar in English

He was leaning over towards a floating spar, helping in a woman and child.

Adrift like a floating spar I was swept away and driven ashore amid the baby-linen.

By great good fortune I managed to seize a floating spar, and, resting on it, called aloud for José.

She caught at this belief as an exhausted swimmer might catch at a floating spar, and rested herself upon it.

The axes were again called into requisition, for a blow from the floating spar would have instantly stove in the side.

That had been the thing she needed: the floating spar to one who is drowning and it steadied her into instant resistance.

Even the lightning failed to illumine the scene just then, or some eager eye might have detected the floating spar and its human burden.

Like a shipwrecked mariner clinging to a floating spar, she scanned the horizon with a despairing eye, and saw only angry and threatening clouds.

Was it not possible for the unfortunate men, bleeding and wounded as they were, still to save themselves by clinging to some floating spar?

At that critical moment a floating spar of an idea swept my way and I seized upon it as the last hope of the lost.