The Only Use of
fulcrum
in
As I Lay Dying
- Jewel's hat droops limp about his neck, channelling water onto the soaked towsack tied about his shoulders as, ankle-deep in the running ditch, he pries with a slipping two-by-four, with a piece of rotting log for fulcrum, at the axle.†
Chpt 12
Definition:
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(fulcrum) the pivot about which a lever turns