Also 5 sokerel. [f. SUCK v.: see -REL.]

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  1.  A suckling; esp. a sucking foal.

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c. 1440.  Promp. Parv., 463/1. Sokare of mylke, or sokerel that longe sokythe, mammotrepus.

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1813.  Sporting Mag., XLI. 37. Six suckerels averaged the sum of 37l 16s 8d each.

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  2.  A catostomous fish, Sclerognathus (Cycleptus) elongatus, of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers.

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1888.  Goode, Amer. Fishes, 436. The Black Horse,… also called ‘Missouri Sucker,’… ‘Suckerel’ and ‘Shoenaher.’

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