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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.
The first electric golf cart was custom-made in 1932, but did not gain widespread acceptance. [3] In the 1930s until the 1950s the most widespread use of golf carts was for those with disabilities who could not walk far. [4] By the mid-1950s the golf cart had gained wide acceptance with US golfers. [5]
Golf carts are primarily used by golfers to go from hole to hole, and are either powered by gas or electricity. Golf carts are slow moving vehicles and most max out around 12-15 mph.
Club Car’s first product was a three-wheeled golf carts introduced in 1958. The company has continued making carts since. The company is regarded as an industry leader involved in many innovations, including producing one of the first street-legal golf carts. [7] It enjoyed newfound success with its DS line of golf cart beginning in 1980.
And a crowbar today in Swedish is a kofot….a “cow’s foot.” And one must mention that the bar’s pulling end [two fingers around a nail] resemble a cow’s foot and thus the English derivation of crowbar has nothing to do at all with the crow, but with cows or a ko. Our crowbar is named after a cow’s foot.
A cat's paw with extracting notches on each end. Typical lengths vary between 8 and 16 inches (20 and 41 cm) long. A cat's paw or cat's claw is a metal hand tool used for extracting nails, typically from wood, using leverage.
any of various light cart or cars ("a golf buggy") (slang) an automobile (orig. US) see baby transport for details see also dune buggy: 4-wheeled horse-drawn lightweight carriage baby transport vehicle also called (US) baby carriage (UK: pram) regional (esp. South) for shopping cart (UK: trolley) (marsh/swamp buggy) a type of motor vehicle for ...