pinch-bar

“In order to lift a block of stone with a pinch-bar, a chock (a quarry-stone or square wooden block) is placed under the bar which is used as a lever.”

3. HANDLING THE BLOCKS

“It is possible to up-end a block, either by placing increasingly bigger chocks under it with the help of a pinch-bar or by using a jack.”

3. HANDLING THE BLOCKS

“But I tell you, Harris, if I'd a farm like yours you couldn't pry me off it with a pinch-bar.”

The Homesteaders A Novel of the Canadian West

“The basket concealed a short pickax of the sort that miners use, a little spade such as children play with on the seashore, but very strong, and a pinch-bar, or”

The President A novel

“Bill, going northward in the drain, slowly paced off seventy feet from the manhole; then he halted and drove two large spikes between the bricks that formed the walls, using the pinch-bar to do the driving.”

The President A novel

“Bill plies darksome spade and pick and pinch-bar, the Harlem shipmen are furnishing and coaling and storing the _Zulu Queen_.”

The President A novel

“London Bill got to work, breast-high and where the lamplight fell, on the wall of the drain nearest the Treasury, and with the point of the pinch-bar began taking out the bricks.”

The President A novel

“· a pinch-bar, or failing this, a quarry bar (crowbar);”

3. HANDLING THE BLOCKS