wrecking bar

American  

noun

1. pinch bar.

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wrecking bar British  

noun

1. a short crowbar, forked at one end and slightly angled at the other to make a fulcrum

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Etymology

Origin of wrecking bar

First recorded in 1940–45

Example Sentences

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wrecking bar

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

From The Wailing Octopus by Goodwin, Harold L. (Harold Leland)

Tony handed him the wrecking bar with a grin.

From The Wailing Octopus by Goodwin, Harold L. (Harold Leland)

Debra was holding my cowl and wrecking bar.

From Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Doctorow, Cory

As the final tumbler fell silently, a faint, raspy screech came to his ears, like a board tearing its rusty nails loose under the persuasion of a wrecking bar.

From Brown John's Body by Marks, Winston K.

In one place his prying disturbed another moray, who demonstrated his anger at the intruders by trying to fasten his needle teeth in the wrecking bar.

From The Wailing Octopus by Goodwin, Harold L. (Harold Leland)