dry-nurse

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Tom Crauford had the master’s child to dry nurse: he was only two years old: Tom let him fall, not intentionally, but the poor child was a cripple in consequence of it for life.

From Frank Mildmay Or, the Naval Officer by Marryat, Frederick

You will dry nurse him till some day he is able to understand you.

From Letters of Two Brides by Balzac, Honoré de

As I said, Voules, to show his affection, I have no doubt he’ll make you dry nurse to that pup of his.

From The Rival Crusoes by Kingston, William Henry Giles

She acted, I believe, as dry nurse to the distinguished Colonel of sepoys, my uncle.

From The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family by Thackeray, William Makepeace

"Since when have you come to the conclusion that I need a dry nurse?"

From Red Money by Hume, Fergus