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Cradle [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A movable machine of various constructions, placed on circular pieces of board, for rocking children or inform persons to sleep, for alleviating pain, or giving moderate exercise.

2. Me let the tender office long engage, to rock the cradle of reposing age.

3. Infancy. From the cradle is from the state of infancy; in the cradle in a state of infancy.

4. That part of the stock of a cross-bow, where the bullet is put.

5. In surgery, a case in which a broken leg is laid after being set.

6. In ship-building, a frame placed under the bottom of a ship for launching. It supports the ship and slides down the timbers or passage called the ways.

7. A standing bedstead for wounded seamen.

8. In engraving, an instrument, formed of steel, and resembling a chisel, with one sloping side, used in scraping mezzotintos, and preparing the plate.

9. In husbandry, a frame of wood, with long bending teeth, to which is fastened a sythe, for cutting and laying oats and other grain in a swath.

Cradle [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To lie or lodge in a cradle

Cradle [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To lay in a cradle; to rock in a cradle; to compose, or quiet.

2. It cradles their fears to sleep.

3. To nurse in infancy.

4. To cut and lay with a cradle as grain.

Cradle [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

2. Infancy, or very early life.

3. 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. 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. A case for a broken or dislocated limb.

7. A frame to keep the bedclothes from contact with the person.

8. A machine on rockers, used in washing out auriferous earth; -- also called a rocker.

9. A suspended scaffold used in shafts.

10. The ribbing for vaulted ceilings and arches intended to be covered with plaster.

11. 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.

Cradle [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To lie or lodge, as in a cradle.

Cradle [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To lay to rest, or rock, as in a cradle; to lull or quiet, as by rocking.

2. To nurse or train in infancy.

3. To cut and lay with a cradle, as grain.

4. To transport a vessel by means of a cradle.

Cradle-clothes [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The clothes used for covering one in a cradle.

Cradled [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Laid or rocked in a cradle; cut and laid with a cradle, as grain.

Cradled [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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