Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To nurse. See
noursle .
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- verb obsolete To nurse.
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Examples
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There were now two additional occupants -- a poor, top-heavy infant with a fourteen-year-old mother, father unknown, and the teething baby of one of the blue-uniformed inmates whose routine allowed her periods of the day to nurstle her child.
Star-Dust Fannie Hurst 1928
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