Wetnurse

2 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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


           suck}] [ant: {bottlefeed}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  wetnurse
       n : a woman hired to suckle a child of someone else [syn: {wet
           nurse}, {wet-nurse}, {amah}]