pullikins
nounEtymology From pull + -kins.
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Dated Pliers once used to extract teeth.
- On Sundays he mounted the pulpit instead of black bare bones, and as a preacher he drew the fangs of Satan with his spiritual pullikins, almost as skillfully as he did the teeth of his brother sinners on week days, with his metallic ones.1867, Leigh Burton, American Journal of Dental Science, page 180: