Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who draws teeth, especially as a profession; a dentist.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One whose business it is to extract teeth with instruments; a dentist.
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- noun One who
extracts teeth withinstruments ; adentist .
Etymologies
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Examples
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A servant was despatched in haste to Wapping, but the desired 'toothdrawer,' arrived after the ship had at last, on Sunday morning, the 30th of June, left her unsavoury moorings.
Henry Fielding: a Memoir G. M. Godden
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Galafredo had originally been toothdrawer in his village, and gained a great and widely extended reputation in that profession.
The Autobiography of Nicholas Said; a Native of Bornou, Eastern Soudan, Central Africa 1873
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But when the toothdrawer pulls it, 'tis natural that I should feel pain.
The Virginians William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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All I know more is, that the toothdrawer still lives; and so do many lords and gentlemen, formerly thought the slaves of the offended fair one's will and passions, and among others, to his great shame, your sincere friend.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2 Horace Walpole 1757
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Lodomie, the toothdrawer, was in any manner descended from the house of Bourbon.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2 Horace Walpole 1757
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But when the toothdrawer pulls it, ’tis natural that I should feel pain.
The Virginians 2006
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'toothdrawer,' arrived after the ship had at last, on Sunday morning, the 30th of June, left her unsavoury moorings.
Henry Fielding A Memoir Godden, G M 1909
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“Beyond these stretched far away to the east other shops -- those of a mealman, a lapidary, a cordwainer -- namely, a shoemaker; a lindraper, for they had not yet added the syllable which makes it linen; a lorimer, who dealt in bits and bridles; a pouchmonger, who sold bags and pockets; a parchment-maker; a treaclemonger, a spicer, a chandler, and a pepperer, all four the representatives of our modern grocer; an apothecary; a scrivener, who wrote for the numerous persons who could not write; a fuller, who cleaned clothes; a tapiser, who sold tapestry, universally used for hangings of rooms; a barber, an armourer, a spurrier, a scourer, a dyer, a glover, a turner, a goldbeater, an upholdester or upholsterer, a toothdrawer, a buckler-maker, a fletcher (who feathered arrows), a poulter or poulterer, a vinter or wine-merchant, a pewterer . . . .”
--The White Lady of Hazelwood A Tale of the Fourteenth Century
September 1, 2011