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单词 tooth-drawer
释义

tooth-drawern.

Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈtooth-ˌdrawer.
1. One who ‘draws’ or extracts teeth; a dentist. Now contemptuous.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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