suckle

noun

1. (obsolete)A teat.

   “[…] the body of this fish [the Mannatee] is commonly 3 yards long and one broad, slow in swimming, wanting fins, in their place ayded with 2 paps which are not only suckles but stilts to creep a shoare upon such time she grazes […]”

2. An act of suckling

   “The baby was having a suckle at its mother's breast.”

verb

1. (transitive)To give suck to; to nurse at the breast, udder, or dugs.

   “[…] the breasts of Hecuba When she did suckle Hector, looked not lovelier Than Hector’s forehead when it spit forth blood At Grecian sword, contemning.”

   “Let us indulge them; they are not weak, suckled by Wisdom, taught to walk by Virtue.”

   “A relief of a goat suckling her young.”

2. (intransitive)To nurse; to suck milk from a nursing mother.

   “But out of the woman’s great brown breast the milk gushed forth for the child, milk as white as snow, and when the child suckled at one breast it flowed like a fountain from the other, and she let it flow.”

3. (transitive)To nurse from (a breast, nursing mother, etc.).

   “Buz attempted to suckle his left nipple.”

   “She opened her eyes slightly, like a person drugged—dreamy and quiet. The baby suckled her.”