GR translation: Kelly crowbars

[kelber at mindspring.com]

This seems a likely candidate:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_tool

Laura

Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:

>V698.2-10, P711.32-712.1   Pirate Prentice saw one in 1936, during his excursion with Scorpia Mossmoon, at the Chelsea home of James Jello, that year’s king of Bohemian clowns—but a minor king, from a branch prone to those loathsome inbred diseases, idiocy in the family, sexual peculiarities surfacing into public view at most inappropriate times (a bare penis dangling out of a dumpster one razor-clear and rainwashed morning, in an industrial back-street about to be swarmed up by a crowd of angry workers in buttontop baggy caps carrying spanners three feet long, Kelly crowbars, lengths of chain, . . . .
>
>What is a "Kelly crowbar"?  I can't seem to find any relevant reference to it.
>
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