sucking-bottlen.
1.
a. An infant's feeding-bottle. Now local. (Cf. suck-bottle n. 1.)
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the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > drinking vessel > [noun] > infant's bottle
sucking-pot1552
sucking-bottle1632
suck-bottle1652
titty bottle1844
bottle1848
feeding-bottle1858
nurser1882
1632 R. Sherwood Dict. in R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues (new ed.) A sucking bottle, succeron.
1660 Act 12 Chas. II c. 4. Sched. at Bottles Bottles of Wood vocat. sucking bottles the Groce..x.s.
1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding iv. vii. 301 A Child..knows..that its Sucking-bottle is not the Rod.
1825 in Trans. Amer. Pediatric Soc. (1897) 9 13 The child should be fed by means of a sucking-bottle.
b. transferred and figurative.
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a1640 P. Massinger Bashful Lover iii. i. 63 in 3 New Playes (1655) Octavio pours a cordial into the mouth of Ascanio. Gothrio (to ‘Hortensio’). You may believe him, It is his sucking-bottle, and confirms An old man's twice a child.
1668 H. More Divine Dialogues (1713) ii. xxiv. 168 I am of that childish humour, that I do not relish any drink so well as that out of mine own usual Sucking-bottle.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > equipment for extracting matter > [noun]
sucking-bottle1688
trocar1706
breast pump1807
stomach-pump1829
drain1834
stomach-tube1844
milk-pump1853
aspirator1876
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. xii. 435/2 A Nipple pipe, or Sucking bottle,..haveing an hole..at one end, which is as large as to receive the nipple of a Womans brest.
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1750 G. Hughes Nat. Hist. Barbados v. 139 Bread and Cheese; or, Sucking-Bottle. This is a ligneous Wyth, with dark Iron-coloured Leaves... The Flowers are succeeded by yellow conic capsular Pods, somewhat in Shape like a Bottle.
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