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wrecking bar

n. a heavy iron lever with one end forged into a wedge [syn: crowbar, pry, pry bar]

Usage examples of "wrecking bar".

He carried a long wrecking bar, the kind used to open heavy crates off-loaded from riverboats, and he looked eager to use it.

But then it stole my wrecking bar and when I went looking for it, it was behind the old coal furnace.

Each carried a spear gun in one hand and a wrecking bar in the other.

If he turned up, I was going to let him have his wrecking bar right between his grisly eyes.

I didn't know what it was-the hobgoblin equivalent of a fire ax, possibly -but it was a fine wrecking bar.

The Scothanian cried a war chant and swung his pet wrecking bar so the air whistled.

Then he set to work again with sledge and wrecking bar, rapidly enlarging the breach while being careful to keep it within the limits of the old doorway.