pinch bar

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English

Noun

pinch bar (plural pinch bars)

  1. Alternative form of pinchbar.
    • 1950 January, David L. Smith, “A Runaway at Beattock”, in Railway Magazine, page 53:
      With only one side working, and an up grade of 1 in 260, she wouldn't start. Mitchell told his fireman to try her with a pinch bar, so Richardson crossed over to Andrew Maxwell, a Glasgow driver, who was waiting with his engine on the up line, and borrowed a pinch bar from him. But she wouldn't start with the pinch bar, [] .

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