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John Micklethwaite, from the Health and Safety Executive, told the jury that the cows involved were suckling calves at the time and may have been acting out of a protective instinct.

From BBC • Jul. 28, 2021

Women who looked far beyond the time of motherhood were suckling infants, while all the young women seemed well provided with children.

From The Critic in the Orient by Fitch, George Hamlin

Two were suckling babies, one was weaving a kind of coarse striped material in a primitive loom, while the fourth was apparently attending to the business of housekeeping.

From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 by Various

Two ladies were tending and watering a grave; two nurses were suckling their children.

From Amiel's Journal by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.