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- noun sports, slang The first game played.
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Examples
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She ordered beautiful jars, a large pot for sealing the cans, and a canning accessory pack which turned out to include the day's MVP -- a magnetic lid-lifter wand.
Big Girls, Small Kitchen: Canning My Fear of Canning Tomatoes Big Girls 2010
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She ordered beautiful jars, a large pot for sealing the cans, and a canning accessory pack which turned out to include the day's MVP -- a magnetic lid-lifter wand.
Big Girls, Small Kitchen: Canning My Fear of Canning Tomatoes Big Girls 2010
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She ordered beautiful jars, a large pot for sealing the cans, and a canning accessory pack which turned out to include the day's MVP -- a magnetic lid-lifter wand.
Big Girls, Small Kitchen: Canning My Fear of Canning Tomatoes Big Girls 2010
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She ordered beautiful jars, a large pot for sealing the cans, and a canning accessory pack which turned out to include the day's MVP -- a magnetic lid-lifter wand.
Big Girls, Small Kitchen: Canning My Fear of Canning Tomatoes Big Girls 2010
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She ordered beautiful jars, a large pot for sealing the cans, and a canning accessory pack which turned out to include the day's MVP--a magnetic lid-lifter wand.
Big Girls, Small Kitchen: Canning My Fear of Canning Tomatoes Big Girls 2010
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The dentist took the lid-lifter from the little oil stove, put it underneath the lock-clasp and wrenched it open.
McTeague 1920
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Kitchens, according to his philosophy, were small smelly rooms of bare floors, and provided with one oilcloth-covered table, one stove (the front draft always broken and propped up with the lid-lifter), one cupboard with panes of tin pierced in rosettes, and one stack of dirty dishes.
Free Air Sinclair Lewis 1918
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Some one had pried the damper from the stove, broken it in two, and had used half of it for a lid-lifter.
The Ridin' Kid from Powder River Henry Herbert Knibbs 1909
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There should be a shelf near the range for such articles as the pepper-box and salt-box which are in constant use in cooking, and hooks should be near at hand for hanging up the poker, lid-lifter, and a coarse towel for use in taking pans from the oven.
Practical Suggestions for Mother and Housewife Marion Mills Miller 1906
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The dentist took the lid-lifter from the little oil stove, put it underneath the lock-clasp and wrenched it open.
McTeague 1899
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