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Loosener

Loosener \Loos"en*er\, n. One who, or that which, loosens.

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loosener

n. 1 Something that loosens 2 (context cricket English) a usually inaccurate delivery bowled early in a bowler's first over

Usage examples of "loosener".

Neighborly tension, on the other hand, is a great loosener of tongues.

Others have had their Dwayanus--the Redeemer, the Liberator, the Loosener of Fate--or so I have read in those rolls our ancestors carried with them when they fled.

They never had fruit, because the Professor considered it a dangerous loosener of the bowels, though he made an exception in favour of stewed prunes which he thought of as regulators, or gastric policemen.

An experience of near twenty years has taught me that few friendships stand this test, & that public assemblies, where every one is free to act & speak, are the most powerful looseners of the bands of private friendship.