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- noun Plural form of
prybar .
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Examples
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Men moved in gangs or pairs or slipped singly from shadow to shadow, and plied the cudgels and prybars of their trade against the skulls and window casements of their favorite victims.
Ripping Time Asprin, Robert 2000
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But it began here, on roads like these, villagers with axes cutting down trees, with picks and spades and prybars pulling out stumps, with sledges and scrapers leveling the road.
Enchantment Card, Orson Scott 1999
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From a cabinet at the base of the shaft, they took tools - prybars and wrenches - and began dismantling the lift belt.
The Covenant of the Forge Parkinson, Dan 1993
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The guards secured their prybars, heaved at them, and the cables jumped from their tracks on the wheels.
The Covenant of the Forge Parkinson, Dan 1993
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The guards secured their prybars, heaved at them, and the cables jumped from their tracks on the wheels.
The Covenant of the Forge Parkinson, Dan 1993
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At Willen Ironmaul's command, burly dwarves stooped behind the stones, heaved at prybars, and the stones moved.
The Covenant of the Forge Parkinson, Dan 1993
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From a cabinet at the base of the shaft, they took tools - prybars and wrenches - and began dismantling the lift belt.
The Covenant of the Forge Parkinson, Dan 1993
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Guards on each side hefted prybars and slipped them under the rims of the wheels.
The Covenant of the Forge Parkinson, Dan 1993
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At Willen Ironmaul's command, burly dwarves stooped behind the stones, heaved at prybars, and the stones moved.
The Covenant of the Forge Parkinson, Dan 1993
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Guards on each side hefted prybars and slipped them under the rims of the wheels.
The Covenant of the Forge Parkinson, Dan 1993
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