Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SUCK'ER, n.¹

1. He or that which draws with the mouth.
2. The embolus or piston of a pump. – Boyle.
3. A pipe through which any thing is drawn. – Philips.
4. 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.
5. A fish, called also remora; also, a name of the Cyclopterus or lump-fish. – Dict. Nat. Hist.
6. The name of a common river fish in New England; a species of Catostomus.