Definition of "suckle" [suc•kle]

• To cause or allow to take milk at the breast or udder; nurse. (verb-transitive)
• To take milk at the breast or udder of. (verb-transitive)
• To take in as sustenance; have as nourishment. (verb-transitive)
• To nourish as if with the milk of the breast; nurture: "a pagan suckled in a creed outworn” ( William Wordsworth). (verb-transitive)
• To suck at the breast or udder. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "These “Judas Goats” here want big govt. and to suckle from the breast of it."
• "Totally random thought, I love how the verification words are sometimes real words or close to real words...today it's "suckle""
• "Now, perhaps once male numbers were manageable enough, once we’d stopped allowing them an automatic and entitled suckle at the female teat, we could consider the possibility of educating the brutality out of them."