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nounsuckstone (plural suckstones)
plural suckstones
- obsoleteA remora.
[H]is Admirall-gally was in her course staied by that little fish, the Latines call Remora, and the English a Sucke-stone, whose property is, to stay any ship he can fasten himselfe unto.
1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
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