tooth-drawer

See also: toothdrawer

English

Noun

tooth-drawer (plural tooth-drawers)

1. (chiefly derogatory, archaic) Someone who draws teeth; a dentist.
   • c. 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]:

     worn in the cap of a tooth-drawer