Definitions for suckle

suckle suck·le

Spelling: [suhk-uh l]
IPA: /ˈsʌk əl/

Suckle is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 80 anagrams from letters in suckle (ceklsu).

Definitions for suckle

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 suckle

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

Examples for suckle

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for suckle
Scrable

12

Words with friends

15

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