Crowbar

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. 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.
  • v. To extract, remove, or insert forcibly: "[The newsmagazines] can crowbar stories in as late as Sunday and still be out on Monday” ( Edwin Diamond).
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. An iron or steel bar, often with a flattened end which may also be hook-shaped, to be used as a lever to manually force things apart.
  • n. An electrical circuit that prevents an overvoltage from causing damage.
  • n. A type of cocktail made with only Crown Royal whiskey and lemon lime soda.
  • v. To use force to move something
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A bar of iron sharpened at one end, and used as a lever.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A bar of iron with a wedge-shaped end, sometimes slightly bent and forked, used as a lever or pry. Also called simply crow.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a heavy iron lever with one end forged into a wedge
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    lever   
    Hyponym
    jimmy    jemmy    jim crow   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    gravelock    crow    pinch    pinchbar    jemmy   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    mattock    pickaxe    shovel    adze    machete