Word Meanings - PRY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A lever; also, leverage. Pry pole, the pole which forms the prop of a hoisting gin, and stands facing the windlass.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PRY)

• Peer
• Peep
• pry
• look narrowly

Related words: (words related to PRY)

• NARROWLY
  1. With little breadth; in a narrow manner. 2. Without much extent; contractedly. 3. With minute scrutiny; closely; as, to look or watch narrowly; to search narrowly. 4. With a little margin or space; by a small distance; hence, closely; hardly;