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ˈtooth-ˌdrawer
1. One who ‘draws’ or extracts teeth; a dentist. Now contemptuous.
1393Langl. P. Pl. C. vii. 370 Of portours and of pyke⁓porses and pylede toþ-drawers. c1440Promp. Parv. 498/1 Toothe draware, edentator. 1529More Dyaloge ii. Wks. 194/2 Sainct Apoline we make a toth drawer. 1601Sir W. Cornwallis Ess. ii. xliii. (1631) 199 To heare Tooth-drawers or Rat-catchers sweare themselves the best in the world. 1654Whitlock Zootomia 291 Enough to make a Tooth-drawer, or Corn-cutter passe for a generall Physitian. 1833L. Ritchie Wand. by Loire 40 The only rumbustious individual in the whole crowd was an itinerant tooth-drawer.
2. A dentist's instrument for extracting teeth.
1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 27/2 We must gently and easyly crushe the tooth-drawer together. 1694Acc. Sev. Late Voy. ii. (1711) 123 He hath two Claws before,..somewhat like the Phangs of a Tooth-drawer.
So ˈtooth-ˌdrawing, n. extraction of a tooth or teeth; adj. that extracts teeth.
1610Healey St. Aug. Citie of God 120 The third, sonne to Arsippus,..first inventor of..tooth-drawing. 1764Foote Mayor of G. 1, You blood-letting, tooth-drawing,..glistering ―. 1779Warner in Jesse Selwyn & Contemp. (1844) IV. 260 The tooth-drawing must have been a curious scene. 1860Thackeray Lovel vi, My bleeding, bolusing, tooth-drawing rival. |