Definitions for suckles

suckles suck·le

Spelling: [suhk-uh l]
IPA: /ˈsʌk əl/

Suckles is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 102 anagrams from letters in suckles (ceklssu).

Definitions for suckles

verb (used with object)

  1. to nurse at the breast or udder.
  2. to nourish or bring up.
  3. to put to suck.

verb (used without object)

  1. to suck at the breast or udder.

Origin of suckles

1375-1425; late Middle English sucklen; see suck, -le

Examples for suckles

Again and again he reverts to the mother's duty to suckle the child herself.

It is Ma who suggests to Rose of Sharon that she suckle a starving man.

Because the mother will not be likely to recover so long as she continues to suckle at all.

In my opinion mothers ought to nurse and suckle their own children.

We will go back to Nature,—though she, too, can suckle "killers."

Willingly the gentle animal allowed the little child to suckle it.

When the Leopardess returned, she asked for her children, that she might suckle them.

It may be asked: what if the mother is ill and unable to suckle her child?

The calf should be allowed to suckle or be fed from the pail for six or eight months.

Before daybreak, the doe always returned to suckle her little one.

Word Value for suckles
Scrable

12

Words with friends

15

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