crowbar
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noun
1.
Also called crow. a steel bar, usually flattened and slightly bent at one or both ends, used as a lever.
verb (used with object)
2.
to pry open, loosen, etc., with a crowbar: We had to crowbar a window to get in.
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| —n | |
| a heavy iron lever with one pointed end, and one forged into a wedge shape | |
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Crowbar
is one of our favorite verbs.
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
crowbar
1748, with bar (1), earlier simply crow (c.1400); so called from its "beak," or from resemblance to a crow's foot, or possibly from crows, from O.Fr. cros, pl. of croc "hook."
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Example sentences
Never use a screwdriver, crowbar, or other leverage device to remove the cap.
He drops the crowbar that he had slipped from his pants and holds his palms out empty.
When the diverting path is a crowbar-type device, little energy is dissipated in the crowbar, as noted earlier.
The argument escalated to an altercation outside the store when one of the owners struck and killed the deceased with a crowbar.
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