Suckle \Suc"kle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Suckled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Suckling}.] [Freq. of suck.] To give suck to; to nurse at the breast. --Addison.
The breasts of Hecuba When she did suckle Hector, looked not lovelier. --Shak.
They are not weak, suckled by Wisdom. --Landor.
Suckling \Suck"ling\, n. [OE. sokeling. See {Suck}, v. t.] 1. A young child or animal nursed at the breast.
2. A small kind of yellow clover ({Trifolium filiforme}) common in Southern Europe.
They had come to give birth on this nursery beach and now some of the mothers were suckling pups. Giving birth in the grey seal world is closely followed by mating, for it is the one time in the year that bulls can find groups of cows gathered together.
For Bush and his wife, Barbara, and a host of top-ranking U.S. government officials, Gorbachev and his wife Raisa broke out their country's best wines to compliment a menu of roast duck, suckling pig and apple puff pastry.
The main course was baked sevruga-fish and roast suckling pig, followed by desert of strawberry parfait, fruit, and apple puff pastry.