nail claw

nail claw

A tapered steel bar having a curved end which is slotted; generally used to pull nails from materials, such as wood, into which they had been driven. Alsocalled a claw bar, nail bar, nail puller, pinch bar, pry bar, ripping bar, wrecking bar.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Architecture and Construction. Copyright © 2003 by McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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