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 baby is teething, and Ma makes me put my fingers in the baby's mouth to help it cut teeth.
From The Grocery Man And Peck's Bad Boy Peck's Bad Boy and His Pa, No. 2 - 1883 by Peck, George W. (George Wilbur)
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 Rose, Joshua
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 Fraser, William Alexander
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 Chavasse, Pye Henry
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