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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



... Arsacides by a plebeian alliance: his wife, a widow of Adrianople, was pleased to count among her ancestors the great Constantine; and their royal infant was connected by some dark affinity of lineage or country with the Macedonian Alexander. No sooner was he born, than the cradle of Basil, his family, and his city, were swept away by an inundation of the Bulgarians: he was educated a slave in a foreign land; and in this severe discipline, he acquired the hardiness of body ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 4 • Edward Gibbon
... while my country was dying. Thirty thousand French, vomited on our shores, drowning the throne of liberty in waves of blood—such was the horrid sight which first met my view. The cries of the dying, the groans of the oppressed, tears of despair, surrounded my cradle ...
— The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte - Vol. I. (of IV.) • William Milligan Sloane
... the better; the fewer Poles there are in the world the less strife there will be. The cradle of the Poles is that apple of discord which Eris once threw upon the table of the gods; they were born of its seeds, and dissension is their native element. As long as there lives a Pole on the earth, that Pole will breed trouble among ...
— Joseph II. and His Court • L. Muhlbach
... Afterwards I gave it as a wedding present to Mr. and Mrs. Scroope, nicely polished and lined. I meant it for a work-basket, and was overwhelmed with confusion when some silly lady said at the marriage, and in the hearing of the bride and bridegroom, that it was the most beautiful cradle she had ever seen. Of course, like a fool, I tried to explain, whereon ...
— Allan and the Holy Flower • H. Rider Haggard
... value of my toil. I had traced the river to its great Albert source, and as the mighty stream glided before me, the mystery that had ever shrouded its origin was dissolved. I no longer looked upon its waters with a feeling approaching to awe for I knew its home, and had visited its cradle. Had I overrated the importance of the discovery? and had I wasted some of the best years of my life to obtain a shadow? I recalled to recollection the practical question of Commoro, the chief of Latooka, —"Suppose you get ...
— The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile • Sir Samuel White Baker


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