pullikins

noun

Meaning

Pliers once used to extract teeth.

Examples

On Sundays he mounted the pulpit instead of black bare bones, and as a preacher he drew the fangs of Satan with his spiritual pullikins, almost as skillfully as he did the teeth of his brother sinners on week days, with his metallic ones.

Etymology

From pull + -kins.

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