SUCK'ER, noun He or that which draws with the mouth. 1. The embolus or piston of a pump. 2. A pipe through which any thing is drawn. 3. 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. 4. A fish, called also remora; also, a name of the Cyclopterus or lump-fish. 5. The name of a common river fish in New England. SUCK'ER, verb transitive To strip off shoots; to deprive of suckers; as, to sucker maiz.
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