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Meaning of tommy bar | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. A cylindrical iron or steel bar used as a lever.
  2. A short bar put through the hole in a socket spanner or box spanner to provide leverage.
  3. A bar used to loosen or tighten some types of chucks and tool holders on machine tools such as lathes or milling machines.

Equivalents

Ελληνικά αξονίσκος
Nederlands kruk

Examples

“A set of two tommy bars is the standard tooling for the spindle nose threads of some minilathes and minimills.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

tommy boy Tommy come tickle me tommy cooker Tommy Dodd tommy gunner Tommy John surgery

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