tooth-drawer

noun

tooth-drawer

noun
1

Archaic, Derogatory Someone who draws teeth; a dentist.

  • worn in the cap of a tooth-drawerc. 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]:

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