"pipe-opener" meaning in English

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        "A device for putting a hole in a pipe."
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        "A device or mechanism for clearing obstructions in a pipe."
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          "ref": "1873, The Contemporary Review, volume 22:",
          "text": "They will note the doings of the favourite for some particular race, scanning him keenly and critically ; they will see how he takes his pipe-opener, or if he breaks down, or if he turns lame, or is absent from exercise.",
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          "ref": "1976, Caroline Silver, Lucinda Prior-Palmer, Eventing: the book of the three-day event:",
          "text": "I would rather have the horse fit by the week-end preceding the three-day event and then, apart from a good sharp two-furlong pipe-opener after the dressage test before cross-country day, only do slow but interesting work, if necessary for long periods if the horse has an excitable temperament.",
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        "A practice event; a warm-up."
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        "(sports) A practice event; a warm-up."
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        "(figuratively) A brisk walk or other aerobic exercise; a constitutional."
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          "ref": "1991, Rudyard Kipling, edited by Thomas Pinney, Something of myself and other autobiographical writings:",
          "text": "That tale may have served as a pipe-opener, but one could not see its wood for its trees, so I threw it away.",
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          "ref": "2005, Robert Hughes, “Man of Steel”, in Robert Dessaix, editor, The Best Australian Essays 2005:",
          "text": "There is just no way to experience these pieces by looking from the outside, or in photos or on video: the initial view of them from the balcony above the Arcelor gallery is impressively dramatic, yet it's the merest pipe-opener to what unfolds close up and at floor level.",
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        "(figuratively) An example that serves as an introduction."
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        "A device for putting a hole in a pipe."
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