subs. (old).—A tooth-drawer: in jest. [HALLIWELL: From an itinerant dentist so-named, or nick-named, in the time of Elizabeth.]
1614. JONSON, Bartholomew Fair, Induction. For KIND-HEART the tooth-drawer … a fine oily pig-woman.
1632. ROWLEY, A Woman Never Vexed, iii. 1 [DODSLEY, Old Plays (HAZLITT), xii. 138]. Steph. Mistake me not, KIND-HEART. Lamb. He calls you tooth-drawer by way of experience.
