slice-bar

“Sankey could handle a slice-bar as well as a punch, and rode on the head engine, where, if anywhere, the big chances would come.”

Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers

“Dan jerked a slice-bar from the fire and hurled it to the floor at”

The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story

“One night two sweet-tempered, light-complexioned coal-passers hit me together, one with a shovel, the other with a slice-bar.”

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“On our gun-deck all was bustle, smoke, grimy figures, and stern commands, while down in the engine and boiler rooms the sixteen furnaces were belching out fire and smoke, and the firemen standing in front of them, like so many gladiators, tugged away with devil's-claw and slice-bar, inducing by their exertions more and more intense combustion and heat.”

The Monitor and the Merrimac Both sides of the story

“I didn't see it coming -- or going either -- but probably it was the slice-bar. ”

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