Wort des Tages
10 June 2026
opener
A person employed to separate sheets of hot metal that become stuck together.
Warum dieses Wort
A job title from pack rolling, where several sheets went through the rolls together and came out clinging as one slab; someone had to part them before the next operation, and that someone was the opener.
In use
Two of the packs came off welded near enough solid, so the opener was on them the best part of the shift.
Written by our editors to show how the term is used, not a recorded quotation.