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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
teat
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A few spurts of milk then the thing was at the teat end again, a pinkish-white object peeping through the orifice.
▪ The journey is not a long one, a few centimetres only, and the babies quickly find a teat.
▪ They attach themselves to her in the time-honoured order: strongest take the front teats, weakest the rear.
▪ Unshielded babies clinging to teats would soon be brushed off.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Teat

Teat \Teat\ (t[=e]t), n. [OE. tete, titte, AS. tit, titt; akin to LG. & OD. titte, D. tet, G. zitze: cf. F. tette, probably of Teutonic origin.]

  1. The protuberance through which milk is drawn from the udder or breast of a mammal; a nipple; a pap; a mammilla; a dug; a tit.

  2. (Mach.) A small protuberance or nozzle resembling the teat of an animal.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
teat

mid-13c., from Old French tete "teat" (12c., Modern French tette), from Proto-Germanic *titta (source of Old English titt, see tit). Spanish teta, Italian tetta are from the same source.

Wiktionary
teat

n. 1 The projection of a mammary gland from which, on female mammals, milk is secreted. 2 An artificial nipple used for bottle-feeding infants.

WordNet
teat

n. the small projection of a mammary gland [syn: nipple, mammilla, mamilla, pap, tit]

Usage examples of "teat".

Udders advertise themselves: pale yellow matutinal full to bursting: nine cows, thirty-six teats, eighteen eels.

Some of them were floating milk calculi, others tiny pedunculated tumours, injuries to the teat lining, all sorts of things.

He squatted down disgustedly, gave a perfunctory brush of his hand against the dangling teats, and began pulling the milk, squit, squit, shish, down into the pail.

He gripped her ears and dug his heels into her swollen teats where several piglets, having been roasted and eaten, left them unmilked and tender.

He resisted every effort to latch him to the tobacco teat and missed no opportunity to denounce his antismoking compatriots for the bunch of clowns they were.

He was perched on a stool, milking one of his few cows, his cloth-capped head thrusting into the hairy flank, and as he pulled at the teats old Nip dropped a stone on the toe of his boot.

I have said, I did not scruple to rob henroosts, or to suck the teats of cows and goats in the byres.

On the first, being hungry, I knelt before a large teat to feed and had a foot long cock in my rectum before the second swallow, two tongues in my vagina before the third and mouths on both breasts by the fourth.

When nonmutant females had extra breasts, in contrast, they tended to be below the regular ones, like the teats on an animal, in parallel lines down the torso.

Huy smiled at the attempts of one to suckle from his moving mother, groping for the teats between her front legs with his miniature trunk until in exasperation the mother picked up a fallen branch and swatted him mercilessly across the rump.

If a female being ruled the natural world, she would have put teats on the male of the species and let you fellas get up during the night.

I had a cow with vesicles on the teats right in the middle of a district under Foot and Mouth restrictions.

Then you learned there was a you that was hungry, and a Mary Appenzeller's teat that wasn't you, but filled you up.

Certainly less erotic, the girl nevertheless presented truly prodigious udders with swollen teats that seemed to have become rigid in permanent erection upon the perfectly smooth areoles.

The strangled protuberances, still blazing from what Anthea had inflicted and now pulsing with blue veins, bulged from the tight hemp, the areoles and teats turning into dark magenta lumps.