suckle

Meanings

1. A teat.
2. An act of suckling

1. To give suck to; to nurse at the breast, udder, or dugs.
2. To nurse; to suck milk from a nursing mother.
3. To nurse from (a breast, nursing mother, etc.).

Etymology

From Middle English sukelen; probably a back-formation of Middle English sukeling (“a suckling; infant”), formally equivalent to suck + -le (frequentative suffix). See suckling.