Meanings
nounpinch bar (plural pinch bars)
plural pinch bars
- alternativeAlternative form of pinchbar.
1 more example
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, […].
1950 January, David L. Smith, “A Runaway at Beattock”, in Railway Magazine, page 53
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pinch bar. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pinch%20bar
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“pinch bar.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pinch%20bar. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pinch bar,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pinch%20bar.
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