tooth-drawer

noun

Someone who draws teeth; a dentist.

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Meanings

nountooth-drawer (plural tooth-drawers)

plural tooth-drawers

  1. archaicderogatorySomeone who draws teeth; a dentist.

    worn in the cap of a tooth-drawer

    c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]
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Chicago

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