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Cradle   /krˈeɪdəl/   Listen
noun
Cradle  n.  
1.
A bed or cot for a baby, oscillating on rockers or swinging on pivots; hence, the place of origin, or in which anything is nurtured or protected in the earlier period of existence; as, a cradle of crime; the cradle of liberty. "The cradle that received thee at thy birth." "No sooner was I crept out of my cradle But I was made a king, at nine months old."
2.
Infancy, or very early life. "From their cradles bred together." "A form of worship in which they had been educated from their cradles."
3.
(Agric.) An implement consisting of a broad scythe for cutting grain, with a set of long fingers parallel to the scythe, designed to receive the grain, and to lay it evenly in a swath.
4.
(Engraving) A tool used in mezzotint engraving, which, by a rocking motion, raises burrs on the surface of the plate, so preparing the ground.
5.
A framework of timbers, or iron bars, moving upon ways or rollers, used to support, lift, or carry ships or other vessels, heavy guns, etc., as up an inclined plane, or across a strip of land, or in launching a ship.
6.
(Med.)
(a)
A case for a broken or dislocated limb.
(b)
A frame to keep the bedclothes from contact with the person.
7.
(Mining)
(a)
A machine on rockers, used in washing out auriferous earth; also called a rocker. (U.S.)
(b)
A suspended scaffold used in shafts.
8.
(Carp.) The ribbing for vaulted ceilings and arches intended to be covered with plaster.
9.
(Naut.) The basket or apparatus in which, when a line has been made fast to a wrecked ship from the shore, the people are brought off from the wreck.
Cat's cradle. See under Cat.
Cradle hole, a sunken place in a road, caused by thawing, or by travel over a soft spot.
Cradle scythe, a broad scythe used in a cradle for cutting grain.


verb
Cradle  v. t.  (past & past part. cradled; pres. part. cradling)  
1.
To lay to rest, or rock, as in a cradle; to lull or quiet, as by rocking. "It cradles their fears to sleep."
2.
To nurse or train in infancy. "He that hath been cradled in majesty will not leave the throne to play with beggars."
3.
To cut and lay with a cradle, as grain.
4.
To transport a vessel by means of a cradle. "In Lombardy... boats are cradled and transported over the grade."
To cradle a picture, to put ribs across the back of a picture, to prevent the panels from warping.


Cradle  v. i.  To lie or lodge, as in a cradle. "Withered roots and husks wherein the acorn cradled."





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"Cradle" Quotes from Famous Books



... Roman Church on the other, in no way affected belief in the Sacraments. They remained in both great communities as the recognised links between the seen and the unseen, and sanctified the life of the believer from cradle to grave. The Seven Sacraments of Christianity cover the whole of life, from the welcome of Baptism to the farewell of Extreme Unction. They were established by Occultists, by men who knew the invisible worlds; and the materials used, ...
— Esoteric Christianity, or The Lesser Mysteries • Annie Besant
... was in the habit of rearing canary birds. She observed that the pair which he then saw building their nest in her cage, were a male and female, who had been hatched and reared in that very cage, and were not in existence when the mossy cradle was fabricated in which they first saw light." She asked him, and quite reasonably, "how, upon his principle of imitation, he could account for the nest he then saw building, being constructed even to the precise disposal of every hair ...
— Evolution, Old & New - Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, - as compared with that of Charles Darwin • Samuel Butler
... horrified. The child was not hanging by the neck, but by the handle of its cradle, which its mother had placed there, to keep her little one out of the way of the dogs. The Indian cradle is a very simple contrivance. A young mother came out of the tent with her child just as the canoe arrived, and began to pack ...
— Away in the Wilderness • R.M. Ballantyne
... June the Duchess of Cumberland was delivered of a son. So that this worthy family presented John Gull with an increase to their burdens in one year of four great pauper babes, to be rocked in the national cradle, and to be bred up at the national expense. Oh, rare John! what a wonderfully happy fellow thou must be! On the 29th of March, the conscientious guardians of our rights and liberties, the faithful stewards ...
— Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. Volume 3 • Henry Hunt
... anyone that can touch Eric Hansen, though—he learned how to ski, I guess, in the cradle," declared Dana King, frowning thoughtfully at the long hill that stretched upward from where they ...
— Highacres • Jane Abbott


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