Topic: HUMAN
| Date: | 1300-1400 |
| Origin: | Probably from suckling |
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suck‧le

1 [transitive]HBHHBA to feed a baby or young animal with milk from the breast :
a sheep suckling her lamb
a sheep suckling her lamb2 [intransitive]HBHHBA if a baby or young animal suckles, it sucks milk from a breast [↪ breast-feed, nurse]
