Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for SUCK'ER
SUCK'ER, n.1
- He or that which draws with the mouth.
- The embolus or piston of a pump. – Boyle.
- A pipe through which any thing is drawn. – Philips.
- The shoot of a plant from the roots or lower part of the stem; so called perhaps from its drawing its nourishment from the root or stem.
- A fish, called also remora; also, a name of the Cyclopterus or lump-fish. – Dict. Nat. Hist.
- The name of a common river fish in New England; a species of Catostomus.
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