1. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else
   - wet nurse, wet-nurse, amah

1. Give suck to
   "The wetnurse suckled the infant"
   - breastfeed, suckle, suck, nurse, lactate, give suck

Derived forms: wet-nurses, wetnurses, wet-nursing, wet-nursed, wet nurses

Type of: feed, give, nanny, nurse, nursemaid

Encyclopedia: Wet-nurse

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