tooth-drawer
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See also: toothdrawer
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Noun[edit]
tooth-drawer (plural tooth-drawers)
- (chiefly derogatory, archaic) Someone who draws teeth; a dentist.
- 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]:
- worn in the cap of a tooth-drawer