give suck

present singular third person gives suck · participle present giving suck · past gave suck · participle past given suck

1. archaicTo suckle; to give milk from the breast (to).

   Wo be in those dayes to them that are with chylde, and to them that geve sucke.

   1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Matthew

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   "She brought forth the earth from her belly. She gave suck. The earth brought forth woman and the woman brought forth the first man out of her belly."

   1955, William Golding, The Inheritors, Faber and Faber, published 2005, page 35