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Meanings of crowbar in English

Portuguese
pé de cabra
Catalan
palanca

A heavy iron lever with one end forged into a wedge.

pé de cabra

A tool consisting of a metal bar with a single curved end and flattened points, often with a small fissure on the curved end for removing nails.

Synonyms
Examples for "pry"
Examples for "pry"
1
Quynh Ha said nothing; it was obviously not her place to pry.
Reach for Infinity
2
He didn't understand her change of heart and didn't want to pry.
Extracurricular activities
3
Don't you need something called a jimmy to pry doors open with?
Burglars can't be choosers
4
Titus had one last thrash, one final attempt to pry himself free.
Heir of Fire
5
He used the knife blade to pry it out of the way.
Death angel
1
Vaughan carried the flashlight and Reacher took the wrecking bar from the trunk.
Nothing to lose
2
The wrecking bar clanged off the ledge and caught him in the foot.
Nothing to lose
3
I opened the trunk and took out the steel wrecking bar I'd bought.
All the way
4
In a hardware store, I bought a two-foot steel wrecking bar.
All the way
5
They yielded to little more than the weight of the wrecking bar alone.
Nothing to lose
1
Ishanti jammed a pry bar into the cracks between the worm's rings.
Sisterhood of Dune
2
Using the pry bar, I began to work the bricks loose.
Drood: a novel
3
Taking the hammer and pry bar, I went back down to the cellar.
Drood: a novel
4
A single stroke from Caleb's pry bar and the glass shattered.
The passage
5
He regripped the pry bar and bags and headed up the final ladder.
The bricklayer
Usage of crowbar in English
1
Brown took the lighted lantern and followed me; I had a crowbar.
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
2
The sailor was standing now, with the crowbar clenched in both hands.
The Wings of the Morning
3
It is short and thick, and the most interesting kind of crowbar.
The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 3
4
I went back to Dr Keller's with a file and a crowbar.
Voices in the dark
5
Fetch a crowbar, and call up one of the lads to help.
The Chequers / Being the Natural History of a Public-House, Set ...
6
On the third day they made an attempt to use a crowbar.
The Heart of Rome: A Tale of the "Lost Water"
7
Two of the men had produced a crowbar and a sledge hammer.
Animal Farm
8
Getting to his feet, Hugh grabbed the crowbar from amongst the rubble.
Breeder
9
For all its mocking tone, the question hits Fido like a crowbar.
The sealed letter
10
If you ever hit anybody take a sledge hammer or a crowbar.
A Man for the Ages: A Story of the Builders of Democracy
11
Jenks, using his crowbar as a lever, toppled the ladder clean over.
The Wings of the Morning
12
He also picked up a crowbar, a most useful and silent weapon.
The Wings of the Morning
13
Besides, I couldn't pry myself out of these jeans with a crowbar.
Calamity jayne
14
In previous Half-Life games, these critters were little more than crowbar fodder.
The Guardian
15
This cement is like steel, and I'm afraid of breaking my crowbar.
Rainbow's End
16
When Niedermann suddenly moved towards her she threw the crowbar at him.
The girl who kicked the hornet's nest
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Translations for crowbar
Catalan
palanca
Crowbar through the time
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United States of America
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United Kingdom
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