A long stout wooden bar or lever; (formerly) esp. one used for lifting millstones.

English regional (chiefly northern). Esp. Mining. A type of iron crowbar or lever; cf. gavelock, n. 3. Now rare.

A type of crowbar with a forked end. Now rare. Cf. wrecking bar n. at wrecking, n.1 compounds 2.

= sense 1a.

Nautical. A short handspike or lever, used esp. to train a gun. Obsolete.

an iron crowbar used in pitching or setting up hurdles.

U.S. A lever used to switch a set of points on a railway. Now rare.

slang. A large crowbar. Cf. alderman, n. 5. Obsolete. rare.

one of the strakes forming the tire of a wheel (see sense 1); also (North American), a length of steel flattened at one end, used as a lever for…