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ˈsucking-ˌbottle
1. An infant's feeding-bottle. Now local. (Cf. suck-bottle 1.)
1632Sherwood, A sucking bottle, succeron. 1660Act 12 Chas. II, c. 4. Sched. s.v. Bottles, Bottles of Wood vocat. sucking bottles the Groce..x.s. 1690Locke Hum. Und. iv. vii. §9 A Child..knows..that its Sucking-bottle is not the Rod. 1825in Trans. Amer. Pediatric Soc. (1897) IX. 13 The child should be fed by means of a sucking-bottle.
b. transf. and fig.
1636Massinger Bashf. Lover iii. i, 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’. 1668H. More Div. Dial. ii. xxiv. (1713) 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.
†2. A breast-pump. Obs.
1688Holme Armoury 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.
†3. A West-Indian plant (see quot.). Obs.
1750G. 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. |