0 past simple and past participle of suckle
1 to feed a baby, especially a baby animal, with milk from the organ in the mother that produces milk, or (of a baby, especially a baby animal) to drink milk from the mother:
Influence of postpartum weight and body condition change on duration of anestrus by undernourished suckled beef heifers.
The milk-ejection reflex was then quantitatively measured in the breast opposite the one being suckled.
Nearly all infants are fed frequently during the day and are suckled through the night until they are 18 months old.
While during the first month of lactation, virtually all the milk is suckled by the calf, off-take for human consumption gradually increases during the later months.
When they are small they can be comfortably suckled, but when they grow they get hungrier and hungrier.
Moreover, prices for store cattle and suckled calves have been considerably higher this year than they were last.
It has got to be nurtured and suckled most carefully and most assiduously.
The result of this action has been to knock the beef trade for six and this has had repercussions on store and suckled calf sales.
