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A crowbar with a curved chisel end to provide a fulcrum for leverage and a goose neck to pull nails. A crowbar, also called a wrecking bar, pry bar or prybar, pinch-bar, or occasionally a prise bar or prisebar, colloquially gooseneck, or pig bar, or in Australia a jemmy, [1] is a lever consisting of a metal bar with a single curved end and flattened points, used to force two objects apart or ...
A crowbar circuit is an electrical circuit used for preventing an overvoltage or surge condition of a power supply unit from damaging the circuits attached to the power supply. It operates by putting a short circuit or low resistance path across the voltage output (V o ), like dropping a crowbar across the output terminals of the power supply.
Crowbar: A "crowbar" is not so named for its use by Black menial workers, [61] but rather for its forked end, which resembles a crow's foot. [ 62 ] Emoji : These pictographic characters are often mistakenly believed to be a simplified form of the word emoticon , itself a portmanteau of "emotion icon".
Known by other names depending on locale, structural features and intended purpose such as a hop bar or crowbar in Britain, Australia and New Zealand, [1] and slate bar, shale bar, spud bar, pinch point bar or San Angelo bar in North America, or just a bar. In Canada, it is often called pry bar.
A crowbar is a tool with a curved end used for prying objects apart. Crowbar may also refer to: Digging bar , called a crowbar in the UK and Australia, a straight metal bar used for post hole digging or for leverage
Odd Fellows Rest is the fifth studio album by American sludge metal band Crowbar, released on July 7, 1998 through Mayhem Records. It was re-released on August 24, 1999 via Spitfire Records, featuring a bonus track. Kirk Windstein described the album as "the first record where the Crowbar rulebook was thrown out of the window" [5]
Koevoet (, Afrikaans for crowbar, also known as Operation K or SWAPOL-COIN) was the counterinsurgency branch of the South West African Police (SWAPOL). Its formations included white South African police officers, usually seconded from the South African Security Branch or Special Task Force, and black volunteers from Ovamboland.
The British "crowbar", five or six feet long with a chisel end, is dealt with under the American term spud bar. This "crowbar" is the American term for the thing called a jemmy in Britain. --Richard New Forest 18:42, 26 April 2008 (UTC)