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单词 crowbar
释义

crowbarn.

Brit. /ˈkrəʊbɑː/, U.S. /ˈkroʊˌbɑr/
Etymology: crow n.1 5 + bar n.1
Originally North American.
a. An iron bar with a wedge-shaped end (usually slightly bent and sometimes forked), used as a lever or prise by quarrymen, lumbermen, house-breakers, etc. In earlier use called simply crow n.1
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society > occupation and work > equipment > lever or crowbar > [noun]
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coleweigh1600
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1748 in Documents rel. Colonial Hist. New Jersey (1883) 1st Ser. VII. 208 Men, armed with clubs, axes & crow bars, came, in a riotous & tumultuous manner.
1797 Baltimore Town Rec. 106 The Commissioners planted a Stone upon Part of an Iron Crow Bar drove into the Earth.
c1805 Deb. Congr. 1806–7 (1852) 1136 Salt is found in form of a solid rock, and may be dug out with the crow-bar.
1816 J. Pickering Vocab. U.S. 74 Crow-bar, an iron crow, or simply, a crow. (Used in New England.)
1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan I. 398 [To fetch] a crow-bar.
1862 London Rev. & Weekly Jrnl. 23 Aug. 172 Burglars, using the crowbar, the gimlet, and saw, to burst open doors and shutters.
figurative.1867 Cornhill Mag. Apr. 449 Even in progressive England the crowbar of reform spares the village inn.
b. attributive.
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1885 W. J. Fitzpatrick Life T. N. Burke III. 30 (note) Exterminating landlords, who pulled down the cabins of poor tenants, were called ‘the Crowbar Brigade’.
1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 26 Apr. 11/2 Evictions..at Knockrush..with sheriff, crowbar brigade, and all.

Derivatives

ˈcrowbar v. to force with a crowbar.
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1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xxix. 253 We had to send out parties to crow-bar away the ice from our bowsprit.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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