1
: the protuberance through which milk is drawn from an udder or breast : nipple
2
: a small projection or a nib (as on a mechanical part)
Examples of teat in a Sentence
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Carlos Rodriguez squeezes a cow’s teat to check the quality of the milk coming out of it.
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Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2024
Dairy farm workers typically express milk by hand from cow teats before attaching milking equipment.
—Lena H. Sun, Washington Post, 3 July 2024
Other workers have chronic pain from the repetitive motions of attaching tubes to cow teats hundreds of times a day.
—Maryam Jameel, ProPublica, 3 June 2024
A lot of those cattle are still alive but the hooves are burned off, the teats on their udders are burned off.
—Anna Betts, New York Times, 29 Feb. 2024
In the initial stages of its life, a baby kangaroo, known as a joey, faces the crucial task of maneuvering through its mother's fur to reach and secure itself onto a teat within the pouch.
—Maeghan Dolph, Fox News, 30 Jan. 2024
Colleges won’t need donors - just endless access to the federal teat.
—Neetu Arnold, National Review, 20 Oct. 2023
The firm that stands out among those fattening themselves off the taxpayer teat is Amazon, which has taken in nearly $10.4 billion in federal contracts, according to the IPS.
—Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 6 Oct. 2023
Then, a calf, clearly exhausted, dropped onto its knees to nurse from its mother’s teat.
—Jackie Caradonio, Travel + Leisure, 21 Sep. 2023
Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2024
Dairy farm workers typically express milk by hand from cow teats before attaching milking equipment.
—Lena H. Sun, Washington Post, 3 July 2024
Other workers have chronic pain from the repetitive motions of attaching tubes to cow teats hundreds of times a day.
—Maryam Jameel, ProPublica, 3 June 2024
A lot of those cattle are still alive but the hooves are burned off, the teats on their udders are burned off.
—Anna Betts, New York Times, 29 Feb. 2024
In the initial stages of its life, a baby kangaroo, known as a joey, faces the crucial task of maneuvering through its mother's fur to reach and secure itself onto a teat within the pouch.
—Maeghan Dolph, Fox News, 30 Jan. 2024
Colleges won’t need donors - just endless access to the federal teat.
—Neetu Arnold, National Review, 20 Oct. 2023
The firm that stands out among those fattening themselves off the taxpayer teat is Amazon, which has taken in nearly $10.4 billion in federal contracts, according to the IPS.
—Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 6 Oct. 2023
Then, a calf, clearly exhausted, dropped onto its knees to nurse from its mother’s teat.
—Jackie Caradonio, Travel + Leisure, 21 Sep. 2023
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“Teat.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/teat. Accessed 15 Jul. 2024.
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