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suckler|ˈsʌklə(r)|
Also Sc. 5 suclar, 6 sowklar.
[f. suckle v. + -er1.]
1. An unweaned mammal (rarely an infant); esp. a sucking calf. Also attrib.
1473Rental Bk. Cupar-Angus (1879) I. 166 Twa cupyl of suclar kyddis. 1791J. Learmont Poems 269 This day we hae our suckler lambs to spane. c1800Abdy in A. Young Agric. Essex (1813) II. 277 Sucklers of a week old, sold at Ongar market for 40s. each. 1832L. Hunt tr. Theocritus' Hercules & Serp. 61 When they saw the little suckler, how He grasped the monsters. 1892Wilts Co. Mirror 5 Aug. 4/2, 30 Fat and Suckler Calves.
†b. as a term of endearment. Obs.
1500–20Dunbar Poems lxxv. 53 My sowklar [Bann. MS. sucker] sweit as ony vnȝoun.
2. An animal that suckles its young; a mammal. Also, with epithet, an animal that suckles its young in a specified manner. rare.
1850Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. XI. ii. 577 They are moderately prolific and excellent sucklers. 1861Zoologist Ser. i. XIX. 7303 The sucklers and birds of the island have already been enumerated. a1866Whewell (Ogilvie).
3. One who rears young calves or lambs. local.
1750W. Ellis Mod. Husbandm. IV. i. 116 (E.D.S.). 1778W. H. Marshall Minutes Agric. 29 Oct. 1775 Last night, the Suckler, in a great hurry, drove one of the cows out of the suckling-house into the yard. 1784Robinson Let. in N. & Q. 3rd Ser. IV. 342, I sold the butcher a fat calf and the suckler a lean one.
4. pl. The flowering heads of clover. Also attrib. in sing. Cf. suckling n.2 1.
1725Ramsay Gentle Sheph. iv. ii, On the Suckler brae. 1853G. Johnston Nat. Hist. E. Bord. I. 54 The flowered heads are called by the common people sookies or sucklers. 1893–4Northumbld. Gloss. II. 706 Sucklers, white clover.
5. = sucker n. 4. dial. Cf. suckling n. 2.
1796H. Hunter tr. St. Pierre's Study Nat. (1799) II. 178 A very lofty tuft of oats..consisting of thirty-seven stalks,..without reckoning a multitude of other small sucklers. 1851Sternberg Dial. Northants. 109 Sucklers, slips of willow, &c., used for planting. |