pew-opener
(UK) An usher in a church.
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(UK) An usher in a church.
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(obsolete, chiefly, British) A female lay church worker who tends the pews in a church; a sextoness.
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(British) A person engaged by a church to eject unruly dogs and children from acts of worship.
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(US) A similar functionary of the Episcopal church.