pullikins
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pullikins pl (plural only)
- (dated) Pliers once used to extract teeth.
- 1867, Leigh Burton, American Journal of Dental Science, page 180:
- 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.