A heavy iron lever with one end forged into a wedge.
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.
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Examples for "jemmy "
Examples for "jemmy "
1 The superintendent gripped his jemmy tightly and turned towards the dirty stairs.
2 Foyle had dropped his jemmy and his hand closed over his pistol.
3 He didn't have time for subtlety; he'd just have to jemmy it open.
4 He tossed the jemmy up to Coombes, and Coombes succeeded in catching it.
5 His next action shows that the ' jemmy ' is really a ruler.
1 Now Dublin is set to get its very first unisex nail bar .
2 This is a Dublin nail bar synonymous with all things cool.
3 There's a personal shopping and suit-fitting service, a nail bar and a basic coffee shop.
4 There's a warning that workers in your local nail bar could be victims of human trafficking.
5 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Breaking Bad lawyer Saul Goodman recommended his client open a nail bar to launder money.
1 Ishanti jammed a pry bar into the cracks between the worm's rings.
2 Using the pry bar , I began to work the bricks loose.
3 Taking the hammer and pry bar , I went back down to the cellar.
4 A single stroke from Caleb's pry bar and the glass shattered.
5 He regripped the pry bar and bags and headed up the final ladder.
6 He gestured at the slave imperiously with the steel pry bar .
7 We got a pry bar , it's got a little rubber foot on it.
8 The pry bar he carried took care of the latter.
9 I twisted and levered the blade in, using the handle as a pry bar .
10 Each kit contained a knife, a projectile pistol, compact tools, and a pry bar .
11 Uram stood there in the darkness holding a pry bar .
12 Kate could see a shotgun case and a long silver-colored pry bar in the trunk.
13 He was still gripping the pry bar and his face was pale, but he smiled.
14 He found a pry bar in the workshop.
15 Selecting the large hammer with its pry jaws and a heavy pry bar , I went back upstairs.
16 The pry bar was three and a half feet long and the shaft was one-inch-thick steel alloy.
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