cradle
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
business
carpentry
construction
games
hobbies
lacrosse
lifestyle
manufacturing
mining
nautical
sports
transport
Etymology: From Middle English cradel, credel, from Old English cradol, from Proto-West Germanic *kradul, from Proto-Germanic *kradulaz, from Proto-Germanic *kradô (“(wicker) basket”). Related to cart.
Inflected forms:
form: cradles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cradles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cradling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cradled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cradled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A bed or cot for a baby, oscillating on rockers or swinging on pivots.
pos: noun
examples: No sooner was I crept out of my cradle / But I was made a king, at nine months old.
the cradle that received thee at thy birth
Hush-a-by, baby, upon the tree-top; / When the wind blows the cradle will rock; / When the bough breaks the cradle will fall; / Down will come cradle and baby and all.
gloss: The place of origin, or in which anything is nurtured or protected in the earlier period of existence.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: a cradle of crime
the cradle of liberty
gloss: Infancy, or very early life.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: from the cradle to the grave
from their cradles bred together
a form of worship in which they had been educated from their cradle
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: A tool used in mezzotint engraving, which, by a rocking motion, raises burrs on the surface of the plate, so as to prepare the ground.
pos: noun
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: A case for a broken or dislocated limb.
pos: noun
gloss: A frame to keep the bedclothes from contact with the sensitive parts of an injured person.
pos: noun
gloss: A machine on rockers, used in washing out auriferous earth.
pos: noun
examples: Rough men brought pickle bottles full of nuggets. Mysterious dirty-looking calico bags were opened, disclosing small quantities of water-worn flaky gold, which had been washed out of the beds of rivers with a cradle.
gloss: A suspended scaffold used in shafts.
pos: noun
gloss: A ribbing for vaulted ceilings and arches intended to be covered with plaster.
pos: noun
examples: A strong iron bar is fixed at the top of each cradle, to which the suspending chains are attached; the latter pass over the sheaves, and the cradles are kept in a horizontal position, by means of an adjusting rod placed above them
gloss: A 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.
pos: noun
examples: The cradle was ill-made. One victim fell into the sea and was lost and the ensuing delay cost three more lives.
gloss: A rest for the receiver of a telephone, or for certain computer hardware.
pos: noun
examples: He slammed the handset into the cradle.
gloss: A hand position allowing a contact ball to be held steadily on the back of the hand.
pos: noun
gloss: A mechanical device for tilting and decanting a bottle of wine.
pos: noun
gloss: To contain in or as if in a cradle.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To rock (a baby to sleep).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To wrap protectively, to hold gently and protectively.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: cradling the injured man’s head in her arms
The little girl was left alone in her tiny bedroom, cradling her dead hamster.
gloss: To lull or quieten, as if by rocking.
pos: verb
gloss: To nurse or train in infancy.
pos: verb
examples: He that hath been cradled in majesty will not leave the throne to play with beggars.
But are the Jewish people a nation? For two thousand years, they have been rent from the physical homeland that cradled their youth; they have been scattered over the entire earth; they have been influenced by almost every climate, culture, and nation, constituting a small minority in each country.
gloss: To rock the lacrosse stick back and forth in order to keep the ball in the head by means of centrifugal force.
pos: verb
gloss: To cut and lay (grain) with a cradle.
pos: verb
gloss: To transport a vessel by means of a cradle.
pos: verb
examples: Edward H[enry] Knight (1877), “Cradle”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volumes I (A–GAS), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC: “In Lombardy […] boats are cradled and transported over the grade.”
gloss: To put ribs across the back of (a picture), to prevent the panels from warping.
pos: verb
Related words: crib
Derived words: babe-in-a-cradle
cat's cradle
cradleboard
cradle cap
cradle crust
cradleful
cradle hole
cradlehood
cradleland
cradle leg
cradleless
cradlelike
cradlemaker
cradlemaking
cradleman
cradlemate
cradle of civilization
cradler
cradle-robber
cradle robber
cradleside
cradle-snatch
cradle snatch
cradle snatcher
cradlesome
cradlesong
cradle song
cradle-to-cradle design
cradle-to-grave
cradle walk
encradle
the cradle to the grave
Judas cradle
Newton's cradle
rob the cradle
sea cradle
the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world
uncradle
uncradled
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