来自crow和bar的组合词，因形似乌鸦脚趾而得名。或可能是来自crook bar, 故意拼写成crowbar.
英文词源
crowbar (n.)
1748, with bar (n.1), earlier simply crow (c. 1400); so called from its "beak" or from resemblance to a crow's foot; or possibly it is from crows, from Old French cros, plural of croc "hook."
双语例句
1. Neighbours eventually levered open the door with a crowbar.
邻居们最终用一根铁撬把门撬开了。
来自辞典例句
2. I got him on the back of the head with a crowbar.
我一撬棍打在他头的后部.
来自辞典例句
3. One particular prisoner recalls having hidden a crowbar In the area concerned.
有个囚犯在那个地方藏了个铁撬.
来自互联网
4. I pried it loose a crowbar and hoisted it into the wheelbarrow.
我用撬棍把它撬松,然后搬到了手推车里.
来自互联网
5. To threaten Kimberly, Dan smashes Janet's arm with a crowbar.