Etymology
Origin of suckler
late Middle English word dating back to 1425–75; suckle, -er 1
Example Sentences
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Andrew McCammond's 200 suckler cows are among the herds that graze across the Belfast hills.
From BBC
Katie-Rose Davies, whose family have run their hill farm for almost 100 years, has about 1,000 south Wales mountain ewes and 40 suckler cows.
From BBC
To address this officers are sent on a two-day course, including a trip to the mart and abattoir where they're schooled in heifers and bullocks, suckler calves and the value of stock.
From BBC
The Karankawas of Texas called "mother," kaninma, the "suckler," from kanin, "the female breast."
From Project Gutenberg
Unfortunately the rhythm is so closely associated with Browning's love-poem, that these lines sound like a parody: Mrs. Murphy, timidest of spectres, You who were the cheeriest of charers, With the heart of innocence and only Torn between a zest for priest and porter, Mrs. Murphy of the ample bosom,— Suckler of a score or so of children.
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