单词 | tooth-drawer |
释义 | tooth-drawern. 1. One who ‘draws’ or extracts teeth; a dentist. Now contemptuous. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > dentistry > [noun] > dentist tooth-drawer1393 operator1598 dentist1759 dentologist1760 tooth-doctor1767 odontist1819 tooth-puller1839 dental surgeon1840 gum-digger1941 1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. vii. 370 Of portours and of pyke~porses and pylede toþ-drawers. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 498/1 Toothe draware, edentator. 1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes ii, in Wks. 194/2 Sainct Apoline we make a toth drawer. 1601 W. Cornwallis Ess. II. xliii. sig. Ee4 To heare tooth-drawers, or Rat-catchers, sweare themselues the best in the worlde. 1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 291 Enough to make a Tooth-drawer, or Corn-cutter passe for a generall Physitian. 1833 L. Ritchie Wanderings by Loire 40 The only rumbustious individual in the whole crowd was an itinerant tooth-drawer. 2. A dentist's instrument for extracting teeth. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > dentistry > [noun] > instruments for extracting teeth tooth-iron1483 pelican1598 tooth-drawer1598 dog1611 snap1611 plychon1688 pullikins1688 screw pelican1688 tooth-wrest1706 pounce1742 key instrument1762 key1774 punch1826 tooth-key1827 tooth-forceps1844 turnkey1855 1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. 27/2 We must gently and easyly crushe the tooth-drawer together. 1694 Acct. Several Late Voy. (1711) ii. 123 He hath two Claws before,..somewhat like the Phangs of a Tooth-drawer. Derivatives ˈtooth-ˌdrawing n. and adj. (a) n. extraction of a tooth or teeth; (b) adj. that extracts teeth. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > dentistry > [noun] > extraction of teeth tooth-drawing1610 tooth-pulling1850 extraction1878 tooth-extraction1898 exodontia1913 1610 J. Healey tr. J. L. Vives in tr. St. Augustine Citie of God iii. xii. 120 The third, sonne to Arsippus.., first inuentor of..tooth-drawing. 1764 S. Foote Mayor of Garret i. 6 You blood-letting, tooth-drawing,..glistering ——. 1779 J. Warner in J. H. Jesse G. Selwyn & his Contemp. (1844) IV. 260 The tooth-drawing must have been a curious scene. 1860 W. M. Thackeray Lovel vi My bleeding, bolusing, tooth-drawing rival. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.1393 |
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