suckle

(sukəl)

transitive verb suckled, suckling

  1. to cause to suck at the breast or udder; nurse
  2. to bring up; rear; foster

Origin: ME sokelen, prob. back-form. < sokelynge, suckling

intransitive verb

to suck at the breast or udder

See suckle in American Heritage Dictionary 4

verb suck·led, suck·ling, suck·les
verb, transitive
  1. a. To cause or allow to take milk at the breast or udder; nurse.
    b. To take milk at the breast or udder of.
  2. To take in as sustenance; have as nourishment.
  3. To nourish as if with the milk of the breast; nurture: “a pagan suckled in a creed outworn” (William Wordsworth).
verb, intransitive
To suck at the breast or udder.

Origin:

Origin: Middle English suclen

Origin: , perhaps from suklinge, suckling; see suckling 

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