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noun

Opener n.

One who, or that which, opens. "True opener of my eyes."

Specifically: A bottle opener or a can opener; as, you need an opener to get the cap off.

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Etymology of 'Opener'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Opener" Quotes from Famous Books

... of in terms of affection. One man says the first thing you need if you're going fishing is a good "snort" of whisky; another says that a good "snifter" is the very thing; and the others agree that no man can fish properly without "a horn," or a "bracer" or an "eye-opener." Each man really decides that he himself won't take any. But he feels that, in a collective sense, ...

— Frenzied Fiction • Stephen Leacock

... few weeks immediately following this change in the primary school, remained continuously industrious, to the surprise of all who knew him. As Tobit was an expeditious oyster-opener, Tony Couch, the saloon-keeper who employed him, was much rejoiced. Tobit toiled at oyster-opening and little Tobe became regular in his attendance ...

— Tales From Bohemia • Robert Neilson Stephens

... meeting was in the nature of an eye-opener to Tresler. He learned something of the machinery that was at work; of the system of espionage that was going on over the whole district, and the subtle means of its employment. He learned, amongst other things, something of what Jake was ...

— The Night Riders - A Romance of Early Montana • Ridgwell Cullum

Words linked to "Opener" : eye opener, person, latchstring, untier, soul, open, hand tool, can opener, bottle opener, somebody, undoer, mortal