tin-opener

noun

And once before my eyes his ready lips sucked the condensed-milk off our tin-opener before plunging it into a tin of potted meat.

But a bottle of champagne, and a compass, and a sardine tin opener!

He investigated his money-box, removing the top with a tin-opener.

“A very resourceful man might uncork a bottle of champagne with a sardine tin opener,” he suggested.

For Alan, a new kind of tin-opener that the dear boy would like enormously; he was so nice and practical.

April 18, 2024petrichor

[pet-ri-kawr]

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