To give one's nipple to (a baby) to allow breastfeeding.
Origin
From earlier neple, nypil, neble, believed to be a diminutive of nib, neb, equivalent to nib + -le. Compare Old English nypel, formed analogously as "a protuberance from one's neb" .
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