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
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
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
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)
If you'll take poke root and cut it in small pieces and string it and put it 'round a baby's neck it will cut teeth easy.
From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Oklahoma Narratives by Work Projects Administration
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