ripping bar

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   a steel lever with one end formed into a ripping chisel and the other a gooseneck with a claw for pulling nails

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   Partsripping chisel

Questions about ripping bar

What does ripping bar mean?

ripping bar means "a steel lever with one end formed into a ripping chisel and the other a gooseneck with a claw for pulling nails".

Is ripping bar a common word?

ripping bar is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.