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Church key

noun

Can opener that has a triangular pointed end that pierces the tops of cans.

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"Church key" Quotes from Famous Books

... Bernard was unusually timid, especially at night. I laughed at his fears, till M. Lambercier was tired of my boasting, and determined to put my courage to the proof. One autumn evening, when it was very dark, he gave me the church key, and told me to go and fetch a Bible he had left in the pulpit. To put me on my mettle he said something which made it impossible for me ...

— Emile • Jean-Jacques Rousseau

... opened and a gentleman came out, a little man, boyish in the back, with the eager face of those who live too quickly. But it was not at him that Tommy pointed reassuringly; it was at the monster church key, half of which protruded from his tail pocket and waggled like ...

— Sentimental Tommy - The Story of His Boyhood • J. M. Barrie