Suckle

/ˈsʌk.əl/ · noun

Meaning

(obsolete) A teat..

Definitions by Sense

1. (obsolete) A teat.
2. An act of suckling
3. (transitive) To give suck to; to nurse at the breast, udder, or dugs.
4. (intransitive) To nurse; to suck milk from a nursing mother.
5. (transitive) To nurse from (a breast, nursing mother, etc.).

Example Sentences

[…] the body of this fish [the Mannatee] is commonly 3 yards long and one broad, slow in swimming, wanting fins, in their place ayded with 2 paps which are not only suckles but stilts to creep a shoare upon such time she grazes […]

The baby was having a suckle at its mother's breast.

[…] the breasts of Hecuba When she did suckle Hector, looked not lovelier Than Hector’s forehead when it spit forth blood At Grecian sword, contemning.

Let us indulge them; they are not weak, suckled by Wisdom, taught to walk by Virtue.

A relief of a goat suckling her young.

But out of the woman’s great brown breast the milk gushed forth for the child, milk as white as snow, and when the child suckled at one breast it flowed like a fountain from the other, and she let it flow.

Buz attempted to suckle his left nipple.

She opened her eyes slightly, like a person drugged—dreamy and quiet. The baby suckled her.

Synonyms for suckle

Antonyms for suckle

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Word Forms

• suckles
• suckling
• suckled

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