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Brewer's: 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: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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