A molar tooth or grinder.
1388. Wyclif, Joel i. 6. The cheek teeth therof ben as of a whelp of a lioun.
1480. Caxton, Chron. Eng., VII. ccxxviii. 239. Al that euer were borne after that pestilence hadden ij chekteth in hir hede lesse than they had afore.
1656. Ridgley, Pract. Physic, 184. Gums with flesh growing too much about the Cheek-teeth.
1880. Huxley, in Times, 25 Dec., 4/1. The cheek-teeth having short crowns with simple-ridged or tuberculated patterns.
