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Definition of Sucklers
1. suckler [n] - See also: suckler
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sucklers
Literary usage of Sucklers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual Register (1806)
"It is generally reckoned, that calves should pay 5s. a week as sucklers, ...
In order to keep up a regular supply, calves are purchased as sucklers, ..."
2. Annual Report by Ohio State Board of Agriculture (1909)
"Since that time Poland-Chinas have been solid, fine hogs, but with very poor
breeding qualities, small litters and not good sucklers, often with no milk, ..."
3. American Negro Slavery: A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips (1918)
"Hammond's rules were as follows: "sucklers are not required to leave their homes
until ... Pregnant women at five months are put in the sucklers' gang. ..."
4. American Negro Slavery: A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips (1918)
"Hammond's rules were as follows: "sucklers are not required to leave their homes
until ... Pregnant women at five months are put in the sucklers' gang. ..."
5. Library Notes by Addison Peale Russell (1875)
"Three classes, viz., free-sucklers, half-sucklers, and spoon-meat mothers.
Mothers, whose supply is uncertain, to suckle upon affidavit! ..."
6. The Irish Quarterly Review (1855)
"Three classes—viz. free sucklers, half sucklers, and spoon-meat mothers.
Mothers whose supply is uncertain, to suckle upon affidavit! ..."
7. The Apocalypse Explained According to the Spiritual Sense: In which the by Emanuel Swedenborg (1890)
"... and also nourished, it is said that they shall be "nourishers" and " sucklers."
(That man is regenerated by means of truths and a life according to them ..."
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