wrecking ball

English

Noun

wrecking ball (plural wrecking balls)

1. A heavy steel ball, usually hung from a crane, that is used for demolishing large buildings.

Related terms

• wrecking bar

 

Translations

heavy steel ball used for demolition

• Arabic: كُرَة اَلتَّحْطِيم (kura(t) at-taḥṭīm)
• Catalan: bola de demolició f, bola d'enderroc m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 破壞球／破坏球 (pòhuàiqiú)

• Czech: bourací koule f
• Dutch: sloopkogel m
• Faroese: niðurrívingarkúla f
• Finnish: murskauspallo, purkupallo (fi) f
• French: boule de démolition f, boulet de démolition m
• German: Abrissbirne (de) f, Abbruchbirne (de) f
• Icelandic: niðurrifskúla f
• Korean: 렉킹 볼 (rek'king bol)
• Polish: kula stalowa f
• Portuguese: bola de demolição f
• Russian: шарово́й тара́н m inan (šarovój tarán)
• Spanish: bola de demolición (es) f
• Swedish: rivningskula (sv) c
• Turkish: yıkım güllesi, yıkım topu
• Uzbek: buzuvchi toʻp
• Vietnamese: quả văng