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- noun A
crowbar .
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Examples
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A Rosary, A bible, and an emergency rescue prybar thingy … go figure.
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You may have to use a prybar to push the bracket into the correct position, slightly compressing the shock to get it to fit.
Get The Lift You Need To Survive In The Mud! EnricoPavia 2009
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Edith backed away, fumbling for the iron prybar she left in the corner of the barn.
In Gordath Wood: Writer Patrice Sarath » Mammoth Book of Time Travel Romance – update 2009
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I have been suggesting using this lever for a while now, and will be interested to see if Obama firmly grasps this giant prybar tonight.
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All it would take is a few good hits with a hammer and prybar.
2112 house. Jeff 2006
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One of the men was clearly dead, an emergency prybar embedded in his skull.
Queen of Blades AARON ROSENBERG 2006
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All it would take is a few good hits with a hammer and prybar.
Archive 2006-03-01 Jeff 2006
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WE know they lie and cheat and steal everything that is not nailed down, when they donât have a prybar.
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Moving quickly, before Maria could have time to start yelling orders at him to cease and desist, Benito took out the little prybar he had brought with him-just in case-and began working at the iron bars of the small window he was squatting beside.
The Shadow Of The Lion Lackey, Mercedes 2002
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Armed with his prybar and a tough carpet knife, he went upstairs and began stripping the floor.
Homebody Card, Orson Scott 1998
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