WordNet
n. a heavy iron lever with one end forged into a wedge [syn: crowbar, wrecking bar, pry]
Usage examples of "pry bar".
In the end he gripped his pry bar more tightly and struck off after the three.
Shima Vedda unhooked a short iron pry bar from her belt, wedged the curved end into the narrow groove between the thick floor tiles and the basalt cover.
They worked the pry bar into the widening gap to get greater purchase and leaned down again.
And then he was ducking under a blur of metal as a bandy-legged fellow with an earnestly murderous expression swung a pry bar at him.
Revolver and pry bar were tucked away under the front seat, so I locked up.
The crack was too narrow, but his friend slapped the octagonal steel of the pry bar into his hand as he reached around behind for it.
She found the pry bar in her sack and pulled the pins from the two hinges.
I explained to her that it worked on television dramas and in muscular movies, but in the far drearier vistas of life itself, a man could pry nothing open unless he had a pry bar.
And you might want to fetch along a pry bar, and somebody strong to use it.
Panting, Wiz jammed his pry bar into the joint and leaned on it with all his strength again.