Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The red clover, Trifolium pratense; also, the white clover, T. repens: so called because the flowers are sucked for honey.
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- noun Plural form of
suckler .
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Examples
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This picking was done by children from nine to twelve years of age and by women who were known as "sucklers," that is, women with infants.
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Further, the stimulus in increasing government and their sucklers will eventually be clearly a mistake.
Let's talk about the stimulus package. Ann Althouse 2009
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The _vertebrata_ are those animals which (as man and other sucklers, birds and fishes) have a backbone and a skull with lateral appendages, within which the viscera are excluded, and to which the muscles are attached.
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Pregnant women at five months are put in the sucklers 'gang.
American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime Ulrich Bonnell Phillips 1905
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About nine o'clock in the forenoon, at noon, and three o'clock in the afternoon, these women, known on the farms as "the sucklers," could be seen going from work to nurse their babies.
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About nine o'clock in the forenoon, at noon, and three o'clock in the afternoon, these women, known on the farms as “the sucklers,” could be seen going from work to nurse their babies.
Thirty Years a Slave Hughes, Louis, 1832- 1897
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"To think," he said, "that I should live to learn wisdom out of the mouth of babes and sucklers ----"
The Lady of Blossholme Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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He has been "fine tuning" beef production from his 120 sucklers at Bolton Park Farm by developing a close relationship with his deadweight buyer which has resulted on a move away from producing extreme continental-type carcasses.
FWi - All News 2010
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Everyone would be outside watching her 34FF sucklers drip soap suds as she bends over to clean the grill.
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Everyone would be outside watching her 34FF sucklers drip soap suds as she bends over to clean the grill.
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