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Meanings of pry bar 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
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 ...
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
Usage of pry bar in English
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
6
He gestured at the slave imperiously with the steel pry bar.
The Fifth Head of Cerberus
7
We got a pry bar, it's got a little rubber foot on it.
Wired
8
The pry bar he carried took care of the latter.
Acts of nature
9
I twisted and levered the blade in, using the handle as a pry bar.
Monster Hunter International
10
Each kit contained a knife, a projectile pistol, compact tools, and a pry bar.
Navigators of Dune
11
Uram stood there in the darkness holding a pry bar.
Servant of a dark god
12
Kate could see a shotgun case and a long silver-colored pry bar in the trunk.
The bricklayer
13
He was still gripping the pry bar and his face was pale, but he smiled.
The Fifth Head of Cerberus
14
He found a pry bar in the workshop.
The story of edgar sawtelle
15
Selecting the large hammer with its pry jaws and a heavy pry bar, I went back upstairs.
Drood: a novel
16
The pry bar was three and a half feet long and the shaft was one-inch-thick steel alloy.
The bricklayer
Translations for pry bar
Catalan
palanca