Cradle meanings. All definitions of Cradle

countable noun cradle A cradle is a baby's bed with high sides. Cradles often have curved bases so that they rock from side to side. 3

countable noun cradle The cradle is the part of a telephone on which the receiver rests while it is not being used. 3

countable noun cradle A cradle is a frame which supports or protects something. 3

countable noun cradle A place that is referred to as the cradle of something is the place where it began. 3

verb cradle If you cradle someone or something in your arms or hands, you hold them carefully and gently. 3

noun cradle a baby's bed with enclosed sides, often with a hood and rockers 3

noun cradle a place where something originates or is nurtured during its early life 3

noun cradle the earliest period of life 3

noun cradle a frame, rest, or trolley made to support or transport a piece of equipment, aircraft, ship, etc 3

noun cradle a platform, cage, or trolley, in which workmen are suspended on the side of a building or ship 3

noun cradle the part of a telephone on which the handset rests when not in use 3

noun cradle a holder connected to a computer allowing data to be transferred from a PDA, digital camera, etc 3

noun cradle a framework of several wooden fingers attached to a scythe to gather the grain into bunches as it is cut 3

noun cradle a scythe equipped with such a cradle; cradle scythe 3

noun cradle a collar of wooden fingers that prevents a horse or cow from turning its head and biting itself 3

noun cradle a boxlike apparatus for washing rocks, sand, etc, containing gold or gem stones 3

noun cradle a tool that produces the pitted surface of a copper mezzotint plate before the design is engraved upon it 3

noun cradle a framework used to prevent the bedclothes from touching a sensitive part of an injured person 3

verb cradle to rock or place in or as if in a cradle; hold tenderly 3

verb cradle to nurture in or bring up from infancy 3

verb cradle to replace (the handset of a telephone) on the cradle 3

verb cradle to reap (grain) with a cradle scythe 3

verb cradle to wash (soil bearing gold, etc) in a cradle 3

verb cradle to keep (the ball) in the net of the stick, esp while running with it 3

noun cradle a baby's small bed, usually on rockers 3

noun cradle the earliest period of one's life; infancy 3

noun cradle the place of a thing's beginning or early development 3

noun cradle a place of rest 3

noun cradle anything resembling a cradle or used somewhat like a cradle, as for holding or rocking 3

noun cradle wooden or metal framework to support or lift a boat, ship, aircraft, etc. that is being built or repaired 3

noun cradle creeper (sense 7) 3

noun cradle the support on which the handset of a telephone (cradle telephone) rests when not in use 3

noun cradle a frame fastened to a scythe (cradle scythe) so that the grain can be laid evenly as it is cut 3

noun cradle a frame for keeping bedclothes from touching an injured limb, etc. 3

noun cradle a boxlike device on rockers, for washing the gold out of gold-bearing sand 3

verb transitive cradle to place, rock, or hold in or as in a cradle 3

verb transitive cradle to take care of in infancy; nurture 3

verb transitive cradle to cut (grain) with a cradle scythe 3

verb transitive cradle to wash (gold-bearing sand) in a cradle 3

intransitive verb cradle to lie in or as in a cradle 3

noun cradle baby bed 1

noun cradle place of origin 1

noun cradle phone support 1

transitive verb cradle in arms 1

transitive verb cradle hold, contain 1

transitive verb cradle phone: hold 1

noun cradle a small bed for an infant, usually on rockers. 1

noun cradle any of various supports for objects set horizontally, as the support for the handset of a telephone. 1

noun cradle the place where anything is nurtured during its early existence: Boston was the cradle of the American Revolution. 1

noun cradle Agriculture. a frame of wood with a row of long curved teeth projecting above and parallel to a scythe, for laying grain in bunches as it is cut. a scythe together with the cradle in which it is set. 1

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