wet-nurse

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wet-nurse - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  wet-nurse
      n 1: a woman hired to suckle a child of someone else [syn: wet nurse
           , wet-nurse, wetnurse, amah]
      v 1: give suck to; "The wetnurse suckled the infant"; "You
           cannot nurse your baby in public in some places" [syn:
           breastfeed, suckle, suck, nurse, wet-nurse,
           lactate, give suck] [ant: bottlefeed]