Definitions
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- noun A person who would
extract teeth for a small charge atfairs etc.
Etymologies
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tooth + puller
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103 Tooth-pulling, performed by a barber-surgeon, or perhaps a more specialized sacamuelas, or "toothpuller," was almost always the treatment of last resort in an age before modern dentistry was able to treat tooth decay effectively.
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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