English Dictionary

suckle

/ˈsʌ.kəl/

verb

(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.).

The mother suckles her baby to provide nourishment.

意味（1）

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

[…] the breasts of Hecuba

When she did suckle Hector, looked not lovelier

Than Hector’s forehead when it spit forth blood

[…] 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.

意味（2）

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

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.

意味（3）

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

Buz attempted to suckle his left nipple.