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Definition of Church key
1. Noun. Can opener that has a triangular pointed end that pierces the tops of cans.
Definition of Church key
1. Noun. A can opener having a triangular tip that pierces the can. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Church Key
Literary usage of Church key
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1860)
"Having now stated all we know of the present subject, we would rather leave the
church key as we find it, and hear what our correspondents may have to say, ..."
2. The Principal Ecclesiastical Judgments Delivered in the Court of Arches 1867 by Sir Robert Phillimore (1876)
"Sacraments of the Church . Key to the Prayer Book . Key to Holy Bible . .
• Reformation of the Church ....... ,. -- Key to Church History (Ancient) . ..."
3. The Anglo-Saxon Home: A History of the Domestic Institutions and Customs of by John Thrupp (1862)
"... he stole the church key, locked up the church, and, ascending a height which
overlooked a deep place in the Tweed, threw the key into it. ..."
4. Journal of the ... Annual Convention, Diocese of Florida by Convention, Council, Episcopal Church, Diocese of Florida (1880)
"HBS MARTIN, Missionary in Volusia County. The Rev. CS WILLIAMS, Missionary in
Putnam County. The Rev. JUAN B. BAEZ, Rector of St. John's Church, Key West. ..."
5. The Domestic World: A Practical Guide in All the Daily Difficulties of the by Robert Kemp Philp (1872)
"Respecting the substitution of the church key for the wedding-ring, we know some
one who was assured by an aged inhabitant of a rural parish not a hundred ..."
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