SUCKLE

breastfeed, suckle, suck, nurse, wet-nurse, lactate, give suck

(verb) give suck to; “The wetnurse suckled the infant”; “You cannot nurse your baby in public in some places”

suckle

(verb) suck milk from the mother’s breasts; “the infant was suckling happily”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

suckle (plural suckles)

(obsolete) A teat.

Verb

suckle (third-person singular simple present suckles, present participle suckling, simple past and past participle suckled)

(transitive) To give suck to; to nurse at the breast, udder, or dugs.

(intransitive) To nurse; to suck milk from a nursing mother.

(transitive) To nurse from (a breast, nursing mother, etc.).

Anagrams

• Leucks, Luckes, Luecks

Source: Wiktionary


Suc"kle, n.

Definition: A teat. [Obs.] Sir T. Herbert.

Suc"kle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Suckled; p. pr. & vb. n. Suckling.] Etym: [Freq. of suck.]

Definition: To give suck to; to nurse at the breast. Addison. The breasts of Hecuba When she did suckle Hector, looked not lovelier. Shak. They are not weak, suckled by Wisdom. Landor.

Suc"kle, v. i.

Definition: To nurse; to suck. [R.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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