Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A nursing-bottle.
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Examples
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Who perceives not that a child certainly knows that a stranger is not its mother; that its sucking-bottle is not the rod, long before he knows that “it is impossible for the same thing to be and not to be?”
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The letters, it appears, are tedious; they would be more tedious still if I wasted my time upon such infantile and sucking-bottle details.
Vailima Letters 2005
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Notwithstanding the spoonfuls of milk and sugared water that were forced into their mouths, and the sucking-bottle that was used more or less in spite of the prohibition, they were dying of inanition.
The Nabob, Volume 1 (of 2) Alphonse Daudet 1868
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The use of a sucking-bottle most nearly imitates the way in which nature designed the nursling to obtain its nourishment.
The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother 1859
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And here's another thing: they have begun to suck that sucking-bottle, to smoke tobacco.
A Reckless Character And Other Stories Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev 1850
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A military man will stick that same sucking-bottle under his moustache, between his lips, and emit smoke through his nostrils, his mouth, and even his ears -- and think himself a hero!
A Reckless Character And Other Stories Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev 1850
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To move into international rugby involves casting aside the sucking-bottle of system.
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To move into international rugby involves casting aside the sucking-bottle of system.
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To move into international rugby involves casting aside the sucking-bottle of system.
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To move into international rugby involves casting aside the sucking-bottle of system.
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