Vocabulary Word
Word: suckle
Definition: give or take milk at the breast or udder
Definition: give or take milk at the breast or udder
Sentences Containing 'suckle'
He took me up in his right fore-foot and held me as a nurse does a child she is going to suckle, just as I have seen the same sort of creature do with a kitten in Europe; and when I offered to struggle he squeezed me so hard, that I thought it more prudent to submit.
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