wet-nurses in English
noun
1
a woman employed to suckle another woman's child.
The fourth type of wet-nursing developed when the Church and the State employed wet nurses to suckle foundlings in institutions created for saving souls and lives.
verb
1
act as a wet nurse to.
They paid them, wet-nursed them, mind them, breed them, fed them and nurtured them, the Opposition Leader said.
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1. Wet nurses to putrid prisoners.
2. Synonyms for Coddles include cossets, indulges, pampers, spoils, babies, mollyCoddles, pets, cockers, nurses and wet-nurses
3. The fairies Abduct human children, leaving 'changelings' in cradles, or carry off wives to act as 'wet nurses' or midwives
4. Bogeymen, rods, and wet-nurses lost ground, parents kept children at home for a longer period, paternal authority gradually weakened and sons began to claim more freedom in the choice of their career.