sucker (suker)

[ How the Indians ordered their tobacco I am not certain, but I am informed they used to let it all run to seed, only succoring the leaves to keep the sprouts from growing upon and starving them; and when it was ripe they pulled off the leaves, cured them in the sun, and laid them up for use. Beverley, Virginia, II. 20. 2. To provide with suckers: as, the suckered arms of a cuttlefish. H. Spencer, Prin. of Psychol., § 5. II. in trans. To send out suckers or shoots. Its most marked characteristics, however, are its tendencies to sucker immoderately. Scribner's Mag . , March, 1880, p. 762. suckerel (suk'ér-el), n. [ suck1 + -erel , on model of pickerel .] A catostomoid fish of the Mi i ippi valley, Cycleptus elongatus ; the Mi ouri or gourd-seed sucker, or black-horse, a singular catostomoid of large size (14 to 24 feet long), and of very dark or blackish coloration. See cut under Cycleptus .