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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SUCKING

ppr. Drawing with the mouth or with an instrument; imbibing; absorbing.

 

SUCKING-BOTTLE

n.A bottle to be filled with milk for infants to suck instead of the pap.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

SUCKING

SUCKING Suck "ing, a.

 

Defn: Drawing milk from the mother or dam; hence, colloquially, young, inexperienced, as, a sucking infant; a sucking calf. I suppose you are a young barrister, sucking lawyer, or that sort of thing. Thackeray. Sucking bottle, a feeding bottle. See under Bottle. -- Sucking fish (Zoöl.), the remora. See Remora. Baird. -- Sucking pump, a suction pump. See under Suction. -- Sucking stomach (Zoöl.), the muscular first stomach of certain insects and other invertebrates which suck liquid food.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

sucking disc

sucking disc ▶noun Zoology an animal's sucker, especially one on the end of each tube foot of an echinoderm.

 

Oxford Dictionary

sucking

sucking |ˈsʌkɪŋ | ▶adjective (of a child or animal ) not yet weaned.

 

sucking disc

sucking disc ▶noun Zoology an animal's sucker, especially one on the end of each tube foot of an echinoderm.

 

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