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crowbar

[ kroh-bahr ]

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)

crowbarred, crowbarring.
  1. to pry open, loosen, etc., with a crowbar:

    We had to crowbar a window to get in.

crowbar

/ ˈəʊˌɑː /

noun

  1. a heavy iron lever with one pointed end, and one forged into a wedge shape
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of crowbar1

1740–50, Americanism; crow 1 + bar 1; so called because one end was beak-shaped
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Brooks went to Mr Perks's home in Halam, Nottinghamshire, in the early hours and broke in armed with a crowbar, cans of petrol, matches and a knife.

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With a crowbar I could have reached down and touched them, felt the pulse of the world’s information traveling through my fingertips.

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Just one month before the shooting, the Ahearne brothers and Kelly stood outside the Museum of Far Eastern Art in Geneva equipped with a sledgehammer, angle grinders and crowbars.

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Footage previously played to the jury showed two vehicles driving across the Great Courtyard, before hooded individuals armed with sledgehammers and a large crowbar broke into the palace.

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Marks that look like they were made with a screwdriver or crowbar were left behind.

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