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church key

A specific style of bottle opener is known as a churchkey.

Ted set the pop down on the table and lifted the caps with his churchkey.

The same churchkey opener was used for piercing those cans.

The brewery's name refers to its flagship beer, which must be opened using a churchkey.

A churchkey or church key is any of various kinds of bottle openers and can openers.

Some experts have posited the term "churchkey" was a way to "stick it to" the religious organizations who had effected Prohibition in the first place.

Favourites include Cork, Estadio and the beer hall Churchkey, all on 14th Street.

Churchkey Can Company

Early metal beverage cans had no tabs; they were opened by a can-piercer or churchkey, a device resembling a bottle opener with a sharp point.

The reception for Churchkey's vintage can style has not been entirely positive, with some beer enthusiasts dubbing it "the most hipster beer in the world".

In 1926, the Pennsylvania Rubber Company released a hermetically sealed pressurized metal tube that held three balls with a churchkey to open the top.

Other independent record labels include Jamla, 307 Knox, Churchkey Records, and Paradise of Bachelors.

From their invention in the 1930s up until the '60s, most beer cans came with a sealed flat top that needed to be punctured with a tool called a churchkey.

In 2012, Grenier partnered with a Seattle, Washington brewery and former Nike designer Jim Hawkins to found Churchkey Can Company.

Churchkey Can Company is a Seattle-based microbrewery founded in 2012 by actor Adrian Grenier and former Nike designer Justin Hawkins.

Having signed with Durham-based Churchkey Records, Hammer No More the Fingers released its first full-length album Looking For Bruce on April 7, 2009.

It is packaged in a 12 ounce steel can made by Ball Corporation that is designed to be recyclable, as is the churchkey that is included with purchasing a six-pack.

They released their second full-length album "Black Shark" on Churchkey Records (US) and on Inhaler Records (UK) in April 2011.

The band released a self-titled EP in November 2007, and issued its first full-length album Looking For Bruce on Churchkey Records (US) in April 2009.

At R.F.D., there are approximately 40 taps, which was more than any other place in all of Washington until the Birch & Barley and ChurchKey opened in October 2009.

She found things in the woods from time to time - shell casings, beer cans (the oldest not with pop-tops but with triangle-shaped holes made by what they had called a 'churchkey' back in those dim dead days of the 1960s), candy wrappers, other stuff.

A churchkey initially referred to a simple hand-operated device for prying the cap (called a "crown cork") off a glass bottle; this kind of closure was invented in 1898, although there is no evidence that the opener was called a "church key" at that time.

Oil cans come in a variety of designs, from a simple cylindrical disposable can opened with a churchkey (or with a combined spout-opener), to a hemisphere base and tapered straight spout to more intricate designs with handles and push-buttons, to the modern plastic bottle.

The church key was in the back pocket of his jeans.

After a little while they took their leave, the church keys swinging from Paul's hand.

A child could open it with a church key.

He'd cut up a woman with a church key, one of my snitches.

He opened it with a church key and gave it to her.

Elsie returned with three cold bottles and a church key.

He was asked to turn over his church key the day of his suspension.

"Now find the guy with the church keys," Reacher said.

He carried a large church key in his pocket which he used as a 'gun'.

There is sparse, and often contradictory, documentation as to the origin of the term "church key".

"I rushed on over there, and he handed me a church key with his autograph on it."

Joey popped the cap on another Rheingold with the church key that hung around his neck.

Church keys often look a certain way.

Church keys are nothing more than Alien wrenches, and I had purchased a full set.

The first of these church key style openers was patented in Canada in 1900.

Rolland straddled the lower half of the casket and with dirty hands inserted the church key.

There was a bottle opener from the bait shop in Marshall, the kind Alfred called a church key.

A Norweigian orders copies of some church keys.

The bartender took one out of the cooler, popped the cap with a church key, and handed Cincinnatus the beer.

While I watched, he opened the casket with his church key, a small generic wrench which will open any casket in the world.

For example, a "butterfly" opener is often a combination of the church key and a serrated-wheel opener.

Their most famous song was "Church Key."

Or appeal to the active lifestyle market and bring back beverage cans that have to be pierced with a pointy opener called a church key?

I recalled that I had made two keys a few months ago that looked like church keys.