How to pronounce “dry nurse”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (chiefly historical) A nurse who takes care of a baby, but does not breastfeed.
• (nautical, slang, archaic) An inferior officer who carries on the duty on board ship, due to the captain's ignorance of seamanship.
• [Verb]
• To feed, attend, and bring up without suckling.
• (nautical, slang, archaic) Of an inferior officer: to carry on the duty on board ship, due to the captain's ignorance of seamanship.

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