Carp sucker, Cherry sucker, etc. See under Carp, Cherry, etc. -- Sucker
fish. See Sucking fish, under Sucking. -- Sucker rod, a pump rod. See
under Pump. -- Sucker tube (Zoöl.), one of the external ambulacral
tubes of an echinoderm, -- usually terminated by a sucker and used for
locomotion. Called also sucker foot. See Spatangoid.
Suck"er (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Suckered (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Suckering.] To strip off the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of
suckers; as, to sucker maize.
Suck"er, v. i. To form suckers; as, corn suckers abundantly.
Suck"et (?), n. [Cf. Suck, v. t., Succades.] A sweetmeat; a dainty
morsel. Jer. Taylor.
Suck"fish` (?), n. (Zoöl.) A sucker fish.
Suck"ing, a. 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.
Suc"kle (?), n. A teat. [Obs.] Sir T. Herbert.
Suc"kle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Suckled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Suckling
(?).] [Freq. of suck.] To give suck to; to nurse at the breast.
Addison.
The breasts of Hecuba When she did suckle Hector, looked not
lovelier.
Shak.
They are not weak, suckled by Wisdom.
Landor.