bar : Idioms & Phrases

• . (a) (Carp.) An upright bar at the angle where two faces of a polygonal or bay window meet. Knight. (b) (Mach.) Same as Angle iron.

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• noun a rigid metal bar between the front suspensions and between the rear suspensions of cars and trucks; serves to stabilize the chassis
  anti-sway bar.
  

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• noun fruit bar containing apricot jam
  

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• noun an iron bar that serves as an axletree
  

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• noun the absolute unit of pressure equal to one dyne per square centimeter
  microbar; barye.
  

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• noun a table game in which short cues are used to knock balls into holes that are guarded by wooden pegs; penalties are incurred if the pegs are knocked over
  bagatelle.
  

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• noun a bit for horses that is a solid bar of metal
  

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• noun a chart with bars whose lengths are proportional to quantities
  bar chart.
  

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• noun code consisting of a series of vertical bars of variable width that are scanned by a laser; printed on consumer product packages to identify the item for a computer that provides the price and registers inventory information
  Universal Product Code.
  

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• noun an examination conducted at regular intervals to determine whether a candidate is qualified to practice law in a given jurisdiction
  bar exam.
  
  • applicants may qualify to take the New York bar examination by graduating from an approved law school
  • he passed the bar exam on his third try

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• noun an examination conducted at regular intervals to determine whether a candidate is qualified to practice law in a given jurisdiction
  bar exam.
  
  • applicants may qualify to take the New York bar examination by graduating from an approved law school
  • he passed the bar exam on his third try

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• noun a drinker who frequents bars
  

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• noun a woman employed by a bar to act as a companion to men customers
  B-girl.
  

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• noun a chart with bars whose lengths are proportional to quantities
  bar chart.
  

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• verb go from one pub to the next and get progressively more drunk
  pub-crawl.
  
  • he pub-crawled around Birmingham

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Bar" i`ron

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1. See under Iron.

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• noun a vertical line before the accented beat marking the boundary between musical bars
  

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• noun a magnet in the form of a bar with magnetic poles at each end
  

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• noun a catcher's mask with bars
  

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• noun (Judaism) an initiation ceremony marking the 13th birthday of a Jewish boy and signifying the beginning of religious responsibility
  
  • a bar mitzvah is an important social event
• verb confirm in the bar mitzvah ceremony, of boys in the Jewish faith
  

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• noun an impact printer that uses a bar to carry the type slugs
  

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• (Far.), a kind of horseshoe having a bar across the usual opening at the heel, to protect a tender frog from injury.

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• a double headed shot, consisting of a bar, with a ball or half ball at each end; formerly used for destroying the masts or rigging in naval combat.

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• noun the status of being born to parents who were not married
  illegitimacy; bastardy.
  
• noun a mark of bastardy; lines from top right to bottom left
  bend sinister.
  

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• (Her.), a term popularly but erroneously used for baton, a mark of illegitimacy. See Baton.

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• noun soap in the form of a bar
  

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• (Arch.), ornamental stonework resembling bars of iron twisted into the forms required.

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• noun evergreen perennial with large handsome basal leaves; grown primarily as a foliage houseplant
  aspidistra; cast-iron plant; Aspidistra elatio.
  

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• adjective satellite shaped like a rigid strip of metal or wood
  

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• noun large owl of eastern North America having its breast and abdomen streaked with brown
  Strix varia.
  

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Barred" owl"

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1. (Zoöl.) A large American owl (Syrnium nebulosum); -- so called from the transverse bars of a dark brown color on the breast.

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• noun small but gamy pickerel of Atlantic coastal states
  redfin pickerel; Esox americanus.
  

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• adjective satellite having a pattern consisting of black bars
  

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• (Law), a plea put in to oblige the plaintiff in an action of trespass to assign the certain place where the trespass was committed; called also common bar.
• (Law). See Blank.

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• a revolving or stationary bar, carrying one or more cutting tools for dressing round holes.

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• the beam that connects the brake blocks of opposite wheels.

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• admission to practice in the courts.

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• noun a candy shaped as a bar
  

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• one of the long bars or levers by which the capstan is worked; a handspike..

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• noun a bar of candy made with carob powder
  

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• (Law), a case presently before the court; a case under argument.

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• noun a counter at a large party where you can purchase drinks by the glass
  

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• (Arch.), an iron bar or beam having a section resembling a flat gutter or channel.

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• noun a horizontal bar on which you can chin yourself
  

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• noun a bar of chocolate candy
  

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Close"-barred` adjective

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1. Firmly barred or closed.

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• noun a small restaurant where drinks and snacks are sold
  cafe; coffee shop; coffeehouse.
  

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• noun barrier preventing blacks from participating in various activities with whites
  colour line; color line; Jim Crow; color bar.
  

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• noun barrier preventing blacks from participating in various activities with whites
  colour line; color line; Jim Crow; color bar.
  

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• (Law) Same as Blank bar, under Blank.

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• one of the bars which support the crown sheet of steam-boiler furnace.

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• .(Mach.) (a) A bar which carries a cutter or cutting tool, as in a boring machine. (b) The bar to which the triangular knives of a harvester are attached.

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• noun fruit bar containing chopped dates
  

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• noun notation marking the end of principal parts of a musical composition; two adjacent bar lines
  

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• (Railroad Mach.), a lever connecting two axle boxes, or two springs in a car truck or locomotive, to equalize the pressure on the axles.

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• the oldest practitioner at the bar.

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• the horizontal bar, carrying slotted spikes, or fingers, through which the vibratory knives of mowing and reaping machines play.

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• a grate bar.

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• . Same as Fish plate (below).

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• noun cookies containing chopped fruits either mixed in the dough or spread between layers of dough then baked and cut in bars
  

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• . (Anat.) Same as Branchial arches.

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• noun one of the bony or cartilaginous arches on each side of the pharynx that support the gills of fishes and aquatic amphibians
  branchial arch; gill arch.
  

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• noun a bar attached parallel to a wall to provide a handgrip for steadying yourself
  

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• noun cookie bar made of granola
  

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• (Mach.), the part of a steam engine on which the crosshead slides, and by which the motion of the piston rod is kept parallel to the cylinder, being a substitute for the parallel motion; called also guide, and slide bar.

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• noun a large bushy moustache (with hair growing sometimes down the sides of the mouth)
  mustachio; moustachio.
  

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• noun a bar of milk chocolate made by the Hershey company
  

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• noun gymnastic apparatus consisting of a bar supported in a horizontal position by uprights at both ends
  high bar.
  

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• noun a fixed horizontal rail to which a horse can be hitched to prevent it from straying
  hitchrack.
  

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• noun gymnastic apparatus consisting of a bar supported in a horizontal position by uprights at both ends
  high bar.
  

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• as a sufficient reason against; to prevent.

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• . See under Bar, and Fact.

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• a plea which is a final defense in an action.

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• certain common sizes of wrought iron and steel bars.

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• noun metal that is cast in the shape of a block for convenient handling
  block of metal; ingot.
  

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• noun snack bar that sells milk drinks and light refreshments (such as ice cream)
  

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• (Iron Works), a rough bar rolled or drawn directly from a bloom or puddle bar for conversion into merchant iron in the mill.

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• a net or curtain for excluding mosquitoes, used for beds and windows.

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• bar iron which has been through the rolls only once.

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• the reciprocating bar to which the needle of a sewing machine is attached.

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• noun a bar of nougat candy often dipped in chocolate
  

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• noun paste of nuts and sugar on a pastry base cut into bars
  

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• in England, the body of junior (or utter) barristers; so called because in court they occupy a place beyond the space reserved for Queen's counsel.

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• noun a bar (as in a restaurant) that specializes in oysters prepared in different ways
  

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• . (a) (Steam Eng.) A rod in a parallel motion which is parallel with the working beam . (b) One of a pair of bars raised about five feet above the floor or ground, and parallel to each other, used for gymnastic exercises.

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• noun gymnastic apparatus consisting of two parallel wooden rods supported on uprights
  bars.
  

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• noun bar of peanuts in taffy
  

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• noun a lever with a pointed projection that serves as a fulcrum; used to roll heavy wheels
  

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• a pinch bar. See Pinch, n., 4.

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• a plea which goes to bar or defeat the plaintiff's action absolutely and entirely.

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• (Naut.), a bar to secure the ports of a ship in a gale.
• . (Naut,) (a) A boom . See Boom, 4, also Bar, 3. (b) A bar, as of sand, at the mouth of, or in, a port.

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• (Knitting machine), a bar or wheel which closes the barbs of the needles to enable the loops of the yarn to pass over them.

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• . See Base, n., 24.

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• noun a heavy iron lever with one end forged into a wedge
  pry; pry bar; crowbar.
  

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Pud"dle-bar" noun

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1. An iron bar made at a single heat from a puddle-ball hammering and rolling.

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• verb lock up or confine, in or as in a jail
  incarcerate; jug; remand; lag; immure; gaol; jail; put away; imprison.
  
  • The suspects were imprisoned without trial
  • the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life

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• (Math.), a bar pivoted at one end, about which it swings, and having its other end attached to a piece which it causes to move in a circular arc.

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• noun a steel lever with one end formed into a ripping chisel and the other a gooseneck with a claw for pulling nails
  

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• (Arch.), one the small iron bars to which the lead panels of a glazed window are secured. Oxf. Gloss.

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• noun a bar where diners can assemble a salad to their own taste
  

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• noun a bar of sand
  sandbar.
  

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• a device used in connection with a calico printing machine for stretching the fabric breadthwise so that it may be smooth for printing.

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Sea"-bar` noun

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1. (Zoöl.) A tern.

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• the coupling between a locomotive and its tender. U.S.

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• (Eng. Law.), a rule authorized by the courts to be granted by their officers as a matter of course, without formal application being made to them in open court; so called because anciently moved for by the attorneys at side bar, that is, informally. Burril.

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• . (a) In knitting machines, a bar to which one set of the sinkers is attached . (b) In deep well boring, a heavy bar forming a connection between the lifting rope and the boring tools, above the jars.

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• noun iron bar used to loosen and rake clinkers out of furnaces
  

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• a kind of fire iron resembling a poker, with a broad, flat end, for stirring a fire of coals, and clearing it and the grate bars from clinkers, ashes, etc.; a slice.

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• noun usually inexpensive bar
  buffet; snack counter.
  

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• noun the bar-shaped typewriter key that introduces spaces when used
  

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• (Law), a plea setting forth particular and new matter, distinguished from the general issue. Bouvier.

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• . (a) A crossbar in a coach, which supports the springs . (b) The bar to which the traces are attached; a roller bolt; a whiffletree.

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• noun a rigid metal bar between the front suspensions and between the rear suspensions of cars and trucks; serves to stabilize the chassis
  anti-sway bar.
  

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• noun a gymnastic apparatus used for strengthening exercises; uprights fastened to a wall and connected by horizontal rungs
  

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• noun the first flag of the Confederate States of America
  Confederate flag.
  

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• (Steam Eng.), a hand lever for working the values in starting an engine.

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• noun a bar where sushi is served
  

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• noun a surface lift where riders hold a bar and are pulled up the hill on their skis
  Alpine lift; T-bar.
  

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• noun a surface lift where riders hold a bar and are pulled up the hill on their skis
  Alpine lift; T-bar.
  

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• noun a tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.)
  tamper; tamp.
  

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• noun (computer science) a horizontal label at the top of a window, bearing the name of the currently active document
  

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• to admit to practice in courts of law.

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• a bar or beam used on a canal for stopping boats at the tollhouse, or on a road for stopping passengers.

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• noun a horizontal bar a few inches from a wall for holding towels
  towel rail.
  

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• (Eng. Law), a trial before all the judges of one the superior courts of Westminster, or before a quorum representing the full court.

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• noun a pair of parallel bars set at different heights; used in women's gymnastics
  uneven bars.
  

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• noun a pair of parallel bars set at different heights; used in women's gymnastics
  uneven bars.
  

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• (Law), the whole body of junior barristers. See Outer bar, under 1st Outer. Eng.

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• noun a bar for mixing drinks that has a sink with running water
  

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• noun a bar that serves only wine
  

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• noun a heavy iron lever with one end forged into a wedge
  pry; pry bar; crowbar.
  

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