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Cradling   Listen
noun
Cradling  n.  
1.
The act of using a cradle.
2.
(Coopering) Cutting a cask into two pieces lengthwise, to enable it to pass a narrow place, the two parts being afterward united and rehooped.
3.
(Carp.) The framework in arched or coved ceilings to which the laths are nailed.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Cradling" Quotes from Famous Books



... bad, And willing in the king to find the cad— No reason seen why genius and conceit, The power to dazzle and the will to cheat, The love of daring and the love of gin, Should not dwell, peaceful, in a single skin. To such, great Stanley, you're a hero still, Despite your cradling in a tub for swill. Your peasant manners can't efface the mark Of light you drew across the Land ...
— Shapes of Clay • Ambrose Bierce

... discursively before lunch. His mind was busy picking up the ends of their previous conversation and going on with them to all sorts of bright knots, bows and elegant cats' cradling. He planned openings that might give her tempting opportunities of confidences if she wished to confide, and artless remarks and questions that would make for self-betrayal if she didn't. And he thought ...
— The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman • H. G. (Herbert George) Wells



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