cheek toothn.

Remonstr. against Romish Corruptions (Titus) (1851) 102 (MED) I alto brak the cheke teeth of a wickid man, and I took awei prey fro the teeth of him.

?a1425 (a1400) Brut (Corpus Cambr.) 303 Al þat euere were born after þat pestilens hadden ij. chekteth in her heed lasse þan þey had afore.

a1500 Eng. Conquest Ireland (Rawl.) (1896) 109 (MED) The grete chektoth that so sore me grewid is falle.

1612 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes Don-Quixote: Pt. 1 iii. 173 That of the Battle..when they bless'd your Worship's Cheek Teeth.

1656 J. Smith Compl. Pract. Physick 184 Gums with flesh growing too much about the Cheek-teeth.

1714 E. Freke Remembrances (2001) 79 The voylence of this my fall struck outt my check teeth—9, thatt strong as they were fell outt of my mouth, roots and all, into my hand.

1788 J. Clark Treat. Prevention Dis. Horses xv. 349 On inspecting the horse's mouth, I observed a part of the outter cheek-tooth, (or grinders, as they are commonly called in horses), on one side of the upper jaw, overgrown.

1807 J. Amos tr. L. J. M. Daubenton in J. Hogg Shepherd's Guide 200 This vein extends from the under border of the jaw beneath, near its angle, to below the tubercule, which is situated at the root of the fourth cheek-tooth.

1880 T. H. Huxley in Times 25 Dec. 4/1 Cheek-teeth having short crowns with simple patterns.

a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xxi. 678 The cheek teeth of grass-eating animals..have broad crowns with cross-ridges of enamel, and these are suited for grinding the food into pulp.

1958 W. E. Swinton Fossil Amphibians & Reptiles (ed. 2) vi. 32 Though some primitive forms had small cheek teeth, most of the Dicynodonts had only the two ‘tusks’.

2001 Independent 22 Mar. i. 5/1 An almost complete skull of the creature dug up in Kenya has a broad, flattened face and small cheek teeth, much like modern humans, although it lived three million years before the emergence of our own species, Homo sapiens.