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Definition of Crowbarred
1. crowbar [v] - See also: crowbar
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crowbarred
Literary usage of Crowbarred
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1899)
"the wheels and crowbarred the track and then " guessed " that we might proceed.
Not being in the least anxious to face my Maker half asleep and rubbing my ..."
2. Archaeologia Cantiana by Kent Archaeological Society (1883)
"end of the hall had been perverted to a kitchen, and there we crowbarred out the
three ancient buttery arches, from behind a mass of brick-chimney and ..."
3. Our Railways: Their Origin, Development, Incident and Romance by John Pendleton (1896)
"No fewer than ten trees were found lying across the rails, and they had to be
sawn or crowbarred out of the locomotive's path before it could make any ..."
4. The Condition of Women and Children Among the Celtic, Gothic, and Other Nations by John MacElheran (1858)
"Burned out, crowbarred out, like noxious vermin ; groaning under the weight of
the most ponderous church and state oligarchy the world has ever seen ..."
5. From Sea to Sea: Letters of Travel by Rudyard Kipling (1907)
"We began to climb hills, and then we stopped—at night in darkness, while men
threw sand under the wheels and crowbarred the track and then " guessed " that ..."
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