Crowbar

Definition: Crowbar

Crowbar

Noun

1. A heavy iron lever with one end forged into a wedge.

Date "crowbar" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Domain	Definition
Electrical Engineering	A circuit that crowbars or rapidly shuts down a converters output if a preset voltage level is exceeded. Source: European Union. (references)
Literature	Crowbar An iron with a crook, used for leverage. (Anglo-Saxon, cruc.) "Science is as far removed from brute force as this sword from a crowbar." - Bulwer-Lytton: Leila, book ii. chap. i. p.33. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Crowbar

Synonyms: pry (n), pry bar (n), wrecking bar (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Instrument	Mechanical powers; lever, leverage; mechanical advantage; crow, crowbar; handspike, gavelock, jemmy, jimmy, arm, limb, wing; oar, paddle; pulley; wheel and axle; wheelwork, clockwork; wheels within wheels; pinion, crank, winch; cam; pedal; capstan; (lift); wheel; (rotation); inclined plane; wedge; screw; spring, mainspring; can hook, glut, heald, heddle, jenny, parbuckle, sprag, water wheel.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain

Usage

Screenplays

If, by some weird freak of nature, we should ever want your opinion, we'll take a crowbar and beat it out of you! (InHumanoids; writing credit: Flint Dille)

I'm going to beat your head in with a crowbar until you go away! (Field of Dreams; writing credit: Phil Alden Robinson)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Music	Crowbar (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods	Shark Corp 21-2145 17-3/4" Crowbar (reference) (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	The common method of removing stones from cut-over land is by use of the crowbar. Near Caspian, Michigan. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Namibia	In October, under order of the UN Security Council, Pretoria demobilized members of the disbanded counterinsurgency unit, Koevoet (Afrikaans for crowbar), who had been incorporated into the South West African police. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Crowbar" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.23% of the time. "Crowbar" is used about 53 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	96.23%	51	47,619
Noun (proper)	3.77%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	53	N/A

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "crowbar"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		qysqi (crow, lever), levë (crow, handspike, helper, joystick, lever, pry). (various references)

Bulgarian		железен лост, барамина. (various references)

Chamorro		bareta. (various references)

Chinese		�'�� . (various references)

Czech		sochor (heaver, lever). (various references)

Danish		crowbar, overspændingsbeskyttelse (arrester, protector), begraenserskredsloeb (clamping circuit). (various references)

Dutch		spaak (beam, crow-bar, radio, radius, ray, wireless), koevoet (crow-bar), hefboom (crow-bar). (various references)

Esperanto		levstango (crow-bar), levilo (crow-bar). (various references)

Farsi		اهرم (Crow, Handspike, Lever, Pry), دیلم (Auger, Crow, Gad, Jimmy, Lever, Pry). (various references)

Finnish		tahallinen voimakas oikosulku. (various references)

French		circuit limiteur, levier. (various references)

German		stemmeisen (chisel), brechstange (lever). (various references)

Greek		ραμφοειδής ράβδος, μοχλόσ (bar, keystone, lever, pry), λοστόσ (bar, jemmy, lever), ταχυδιακόπτης. (various references)

Hebrew		מ� וף (crane, elevator, heaver, hoist, impetus, lever, stimulus, winch, windlass). (various references)

Hungarian		feszítővas (bar, chisel, jimmy, wrenching iron). (various references)

Indonesian		cungkil (lever, rung), pengumpil, linggis (handspike). (various references)

Italian		circuito limitatore (clamping circuit, clipper, clipping circuit), piede di porco (jemmy, Jimmy). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		鉄�' (horizontal bar, iron rod), 鉄梃 , 金梃 , ハ長調 (bar, bar code, barbarism, barbecue, barbell, barber, barell, bargain, bargain sale, bargaining power, bartender, barter, base, Bayer, BBQ, Berkeley, berkelium, Berkley, Bermuda shorts, Bermuda Triangle, berth, bias, biathlon, bio, bio music, biochip, biocomputer, bioconversion, bioelectronics, bioethics, biofeedback, biogas, biography, biohazard, bioholonics, bioindustry, bioinfomatics, biomass, bionics, biopsy, bioreactor, biorhythm, bioscience, biosensor, biotechnology, biotelemetry, biotron, bird carving, bird sanctuary, bird watching, birdcall, birdie, Birmingham, birth, birth control, birthday, bourbon, Burberry, burger, burlesque, burner, burn-out syndrome, burst, buying power, by, bye, C major, Farbenfabriken Bayer Aktiengesellschaft, hair combed in stripes across a bald pate, old man who takes Viagra, scale, updating a software version, Vermont, vernier, verse, version, vertical marketing, violin, violinist, virgin, Virginia, virginity, virtual, virtual circuit, virtual reality). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		バール (bar), かなぼう (horizontal bar, iron rod, metal rod), かなて�", てつぼう (helmet, horizontal bar, iron rod). (various references)

Manx		groe, craue yiarn, craiu (corrode, corrosion; lever, eat away). (various references)

Norwegian		brekkjern. (various references)

Pig Latin		owbarcray

Portuguese		pé-de-cabra (crow, jemmy, jimmy, pry), barra (cross-bar, girder, inlet, ray, strip, stripe, tablet, timber), alçaprema. (various references)

Romanian		rangã (crow-bar, gad, pinch bar). (various references)

Russian		лом (crow-bar, scrap, tommy bar, tommy-bar). (various references)

Sepedi		kepi. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		gvozdena poluga. (various references)

Spanish		palanca (bar, hand gear, handgrip, handle, influence, lever, leverage, levers, prise, prize, pry, pull, purchase, springboard, stockade, toggle). (various references)

Swazi		um-gcalá. (various references)

Swedish		kofot (jemmy, Jimmy), bräckjärn (crowfoot). (various references)

Turkish		kol demiri (crossbar), kazayağı. (various references)

Ukrainian		лом лапчастий. (various references)

Welsh		trosol (bar, lever, staff), gwif (lever). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	vecte, vectem, vectes, vectibus, vectium. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "crowbar": crowbarred, crowbarring, crowbars. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Crowbar" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: chowgarh, Corbar, Corbara, Cowbar, crawbar. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "crowbar" (pronounced krō"bÄ'r)
3	-b Ä' r	cinnabar, handlebar, lumbar, millibar, rebar, sandbar, Sidebar.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-c-o-r-r-w"
	-1 letter: barrow.
	-2 letters: arbor, arrow, carbo, carob, cobra.
	-3 letters: arco, boar, bora, braw, brow, carb, carr, crab, craw, crow, orca, orra, roar.
	-4 letters: abo, arb, arc, bar, boa, bow, bra, bro, brr, cab, car, caw, cob, cor, cow, oar, oca, ora, orb, orc, raw, rob, roc, row, wab, war.
	-5 letters: ab, ar, aw, ba, bo, or.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-c-o-r-r-w"
	+1 letter: crowbars.
	+3 letters: crowbarred.
	+4 letters: crowbarring.
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Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
crowbar	184	beach crowbar south	3
college crowbar state	19	crowbar official	3
crowbar rocket	8	bontrager crowbar sport	3
college crowbar pa state	6	club crowbar	3
crowbar miami	6	crowbar music	2
chicago crowbar	5	crowbar power takeoff	2
crowbar windstein	5	crowbar use	2
band crowbar	4	titanium crowbar	2
crowbar tab	4	crowbar night club	2
crowbar lyrics	4	crowbar picture	2
		circuit crowbar	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Crowbar

Definition: Crowbar

Crowbar

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Specialty Definition: Crowbar

Synonyms: Crowbar

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