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(sk"r), n. 1. One who, or that which, sucks; esp., one of the organs by which certain animals, as the octopus and remora, adhere to other bodies. 2. A suckling; a sucking animal. Beau. & Fl. 3. The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket. Boyle. 4. A pipe through which anything is drawn. 5. A small piece of leather, usually round, having a string attached to the center, which, when saturated with water and pressed upon a stone or other body having a smooth surface, adheres, by reason of the atmospheric pressure, with such force as to enable a considerable weight to be thus lifted by the string; -- used by children as a plaything. 6. (Bot.) A shoot from the roots or lower part of the stem of a plant; -- so called, perhaps, from diverting nourishment from the body of the plant. 7. (Zol.) (a) Any one of numerous species of North American fresh-water cyprinoid fishes of the family Catostomid; so called because the lips are protrusile. The flesh is coarse, and they are Suck"er (), v. t.[imp. & p. p.Suckered (); p. pr. & vb. n.Suckering.] To strip off the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of suckers; as, to sucker maize. Suck"er v. i.To form suckers; as, corn suckers abundantly. スポンサード リンク
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