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.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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