cut teeth
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Medical professionals cut teeth and tissue out of the then-20-year-old’s mouth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2022
The large gear has cut teeth, and the pinion is of steel, working in gun-metal bearings.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
The babes can't cut teeth, and grow, and fight it out in punishing races on dusty hay and hard-shelled oats, when they ought to be picking grass in an open field.
From Thoroughbreds by William Alexander Fraser
Some have cut teeth at three months; indeed, there are instances on record of infants having been born with teeth.
From Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children by Pye Henry Chavasse
It is pretty, in youth, to play with style as a puppy plays with a bone, to cut teeth upon it.
From Adventures in Criticism by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
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