crowbarred
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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| a heavy iron lever with one pointed end, and one forged into a wedge shape | |
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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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