crowbar

crowbar
/kroh"bahr'/, n., v.t., crowbarred, crowbarring.
n.
1. Also called crow. a steel bar, usually flattened and slightly bent at one or both ends, used as a lever.
v.t.
2. to pry open, loosen, etc., with a crowbar: We had to crowbar a window to get in.
[1740-50, Amer.; CROW1 + BAR1; so called because one end was beak-shaped]

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