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Definition of Sucking

1. Noun. The act of sucking.

Definition of Sucking

1. a. Drawing milk from the mother or dam; hence, colloquially, young, inexperienced, as, a sucking infant; a sucking calf.

Definition of Sucking

1. Verb. (present participle of suck) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sucking

1. suck [v] - See also: suck

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sucking

Literary usage of Sucking

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Handbook of Instructions for Collectors by British Museum (Natural History) (1906)
"BLOOD-sucking ARTHROPODA. IN view of the possible importance of Blood-sucking Arthropoda, other than Mosquitoes and Tsetse-flies,* in tbe dissemination of ..."

2. A Descriptive and Historical Account of Hydraulic and Other Machines for by Thomas Ewbank (1842)
"... of suction—Why the term is continued—sucking poison from wounds—Cupping and cupping-horns—Ingenuity of a raven—sucking tubes original atmospheric pump! ..."

3. A Descriptive and Historical Account of Hydraulic and Other Machines for by Thomas Ewbank (1849)
"... suction—Why the term i- continued—sucking poison from wounds—Cupping and cupping-horns—Ingenuity of a raven—sucking tubes original atmospheric pumps—The ..."

4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... by entomologists to describe the elongated mouth-parts of many insects, such as blood-sucking flies, juice-sucking plant-bugs, weevils and other forms. ..."

5. A Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts by Thomas Young (1845)
"The rod of a sucking pump may also be made to work in a collar of leather, and the water may be forced through a valve into an ascending pipe. ..."

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