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Grammar : Verb
Spell : suhk-uh l
Phonetic Transcription : ˈsʌk əl



Definition of suckle

Origin :
  • c.1400, perhaps a causative form of Middle English suken "to suck" (see suck), or a back-formation from suckling (though this word is attested only from mid-15c.). Related: Suckled; suckling.
  • verb nurse
Example sentences :
  • Before daybreak, the doe always returned to suckle her little one.
  • Extract from : « Creatures of the Night » by Alfred W. Rees
  • Again and again he reverts to the mother's duty to suckle the child herself.
  • Extract from : « Erasmus and the Age of Reformation » by Johan Huizinga
  • The calf should be allowed to suckle or be fed from the pail for six or eight months.
  • Extract from : « Cattle and Cattle-breeders » by William M'Combie
  • Because the mother will not be likely to recover so long as she continues to suckle at all.
  • Extract from : « Remarks on the Subject of Lactation » by Edward Morton
  • Willingly the gentle animal allowed the little child to suckle it.
  • Extract from : « Legends of the Rhine » by Wilhelm Ruland
  • It may be asked: what if the mother is ill and unable to suckle her child?
  • Extract from : « Spontaneous Activity in Education » by Maria Montessori
  • We will go back to Nature,—though she, too, can suckle "killers."
  • Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 » by Various
  • When the Leopardess returned, she asked for her children, that she might suckle them.
  • Extract from : « Nights With Uncle Remus » by Joel Chandler Harris
  • In my opinion mothers ought to nurse and suckle their own children.
  • Extract from : « Plutarch's Morals » by Plutarch
  • But with no one to suckle them, the babies would have starved to death.
  • Extract from : « The Saracen: Land of the Infidel » by Robert Shea

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