Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A straight bar of iron or steel, with the working end shaped like a chisel and often slightly bent and forked, used as a lever.
- transitive verb To extract, remove, or insert forcibly.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A bar of iron with a wedge-shaped end, sometimes slightly bent and forked, used as a lever or pry. Also called simply crow.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A bar of iron sharpened at one end, and used as a lever.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An iron or steel
bar , often with a flattened end which may also be hook-shaped, to be used as alever to manually force things apart. - noun An
electrical circuit that prevents anovervoltage from causing damage. - noun A type of
cocktail made with only Crown Royalwhiskey and lemon limesoda . - verb To use
force to move something
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a heavy iron lever with one end forged into a wedge
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Grab the crowbar from the inventory and use it to open the crate.
Archive 2009-01-01 2009
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But a couple of young men stopped, took a crowbar from the boot of their car (yes, you might ask why they had such a tool available) took the drain cover off and rescued the duckling.
When Ducks Attack 2008
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Besides, the New York Times always uses the word crowbar to describe the schooling of prominent politicians ... just like they used cocain and alcohol to describe the life-student schooling of President Bush, who graduated from AA State at the young age of 40.
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1 - Collect items: - antenna (thin, gray wire over the car's reflector) - tube (blue item under the car) - bucket (click the rope on the weel and then take the bucket) 2 - Take the crowbar from the bucket (click the little gray item in the bucket icon in inventory).
Archive 2010-04-01 2010
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Assuming that there are 40 million (or whatever the current uninsured number is) people who seek to be "employed," it is laughable to think that handing them a crowbar is the solution.
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A crowbar might be a good weapon, he thought, but it was large to carry.
Stranger in the House Patricia MacDonald 1983
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Boring holes all over the surface of the beds with a crowbar is the common way of reducing a too high temperature, and when the heat has subsided sufficiently fill up these holes with finely pulverized dry loam.
Mushrooms: how to grow them a practical treatise on mushroom culture for profit and pleasure William Falconer
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Each of our five friends now took from under his cloak a crowbar, and in a minute they had forced open the great door.
Ting-a-ling Frank Richard Stockton 1868
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"Breaking icicles with a crowbar is a Stone Age method," Matviyenko said, calling on local scientists to think about new ways of removing them, including nanotechnology.
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"Breaking icicles with a crowbar is a Stone Age method," Matviyenko said, calling on local scientists to think about new ways of removing them, including nanotechnology.
whichbe commented on the word crowbar
As besotted cawing echoed into the night.
December 3, 2008
strev commented on the word crowbar
Murderers and scavengers hangout.
February 6, 2011
bilby commented on the word crowbar
I'm not very convinced by this etymology.
June 5, 2024
alexz commented on the word crowbar
Crows use their curved beaks for leverage. The feet are just regular corvid talons.
On the west coast, they'll open up clams and small crabs.
June 5, 2024
bilby commented on the word crowbar
So, a crow walks into a bar. And the bartender says ...
June 5, 2024