Cradle
['kreɪd(ə)l] or ['kredl]
Definition
(noun.) a baby bed with sides and rockers.
(noun.) birth of a person; 'he was taught from the cradle never to cry'.
(verb.) run with the stick.
(verb.) hold gently and carefully; 'He cradles the child in his arms'.
(verb.) wash in a cradle; 'cradle gold'.
(verb.) cut grain with a cradle scythe.
(verb.) hold or place in or as if in a cradle; 'He cradled the infant in his arms'.
(verb.) bring up from infancy.
Checked by Jessie--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) Infancy, or very early life.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A tool used in mezzotint engraving, which, by a rocking motion, raises burrs on the surface of the plate, so preparing the ground.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A case for a broken or dislocated limb.
(n.) A frame to keep the bedclothes from contact with the person.
(n.) A machine on rockers, used in washing out auriferous earth; -- also called a rocker.
(n.) A suspended scaffold used in shafts.
(n.) The ribbing for vaulted ceilings and arches intended to be covered with plaster.
(n.) 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.
(v. t.) To lay to rest, or rock, as in a cradle; to lull or quiet, as by rocking.
(v. t.) To nurse or train in infancy.
(v. t.) To cut and lay with a cradle, as grain.
(v. t.) To transport a vessel by means of a cradle.
(v. i.) To lie or lodge, as in a cradle.
Checked by Freda
Definition
n. a bed or crib in which children are rocked: (fig.) infancy: the place where one is born and brought up: a frame in which anything is imbedded: a case for a broken limb: a frame under a ship for launching it: a box on rockers for washing auriferous dirt.—v.t. to lay or rock in a cradle: to nurture.—adj. Crā′dled laid in a cradle.—ns. Crā′dle-scythe a broad scythe used in a cradle for cutting grain; Crā′dle-walk an avenue arched over with trees; Crā′dling.—From the cradle from birth from the first.
Checker: Melanie
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a cradle, with a beautiful infant occupying it, portends prosperity and the affections of beautiful children. To rock your own baby in a cradle, denotes the serious illness of one of the family. For a young woman to dream of rocking a cradle is portentous of her downfall. She should beware of gossiping.
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Examples
- Let greater echoes resound as they would, the young mother at the cradle side could always hear those coming. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- But all this has been changed by the advent of the reaper, and ere long the grain cradle will hang on the walls of the museum as an ethnological specimen only. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Are you thinking of visiting the cradle of humanity? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Blue evening had fallen over the cradle of snow and over the great pallid slopes. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The worker was henceforth a worker from the cradle to the grave. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- After that, she took the baby out of its little cradle, and nursed it. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- You begin late, said I, ironically, marriage is usually considered the grave, and not the cradle of love. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- She held her to her bosom; she cradled her in her arms; she rocked her softly, as if lulling a young child to sleep. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- A mother cradled in her enfeebled arms the child, last of many, whose glazed eye was about to close for ever. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Thus long, I have cradled my heart in retrospection of past happiness, when hope was. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- She studiously shut out all prospect of the future, and cradled her heart in present blessings. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Cradled at last in blissful self-complacency, she took her knitting, and sat down tranquil. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Until now, agonizing retrospect, and dreary prospects for the future, had stung me when awake, and cradled me to my repose. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The English tongue we were both taught from our cradles; so you now know the reason we both speak it so well. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
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