unstopper

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The finest prefaces and afterwords, meanwhile, are “restorative. They unstopper the vial that contains, like some volatile oil, the fragrance of the time in which the prefaced work was engendered, conceived, or written, summoning for writer and reader alike a sensuous jolt of things past.”

From Los Angeles Times

Unstopper, un-stop′ėr, v.t. to open, as a bottle, by taking out the stopper.

From Project Gutenberg

Rather they should see them as tools which, skill fully used, will unstopper the economy so that the forces for full employment, i.e., war-created markets and huge savings, are freed in a steady stream, not one dam-breaking burst.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was like being able to pause again and again before the bottle, hold it up to the light, and say to it, "Some day, when my desire for you has reached the ultimate, I shall unstopper you quietly and sip you slowly to the last soul-satisfying drop."

From Project Gutenberg

The relief of them seemed to unstopper his voice.

From Project Gutenberg