Sekirov Dictionary

cradle

/ˈkɹeɪdəl/

noun15

  1. A bed or cot for a baby, oscillating on rockers or swinging on pivots.
  2. (figurative) The place of origin, or in which anything is nurtured or protected in the earlier period of existence.
  3. (figurative) Infancy, or very early life.
  4. A rest for the receiver of a telephone, or for certain computer hardware.
  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 sensitive parts of an injured person.
  8. 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.
  9. A hand position allowing a contact ball to be held steadily on the back of the hand.
  10. 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.
  11. A mechanical device for tilting and decanting a bottle of wine.
  12. 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.
  13. A machine on rockers, used in washing out auriferous earth.
  14. A suspended scaffold used in shafts.
  15. A ribbing for vaulted ceilings and arches intended to be covered with plaster.

verb9

  1. To contain in or as if in a cradle.
  2. To wrap protectively, to hold gently and protectively.
  3. To rock (a baby to sleep).
  4. To lull or quieten, as if by rocking.
  5. To rock the lacrosse stick back and forth in order to keep the ball in the head by means of centrifugal force.
  6. To nurse or train in infancy.
  7. To transport a vessel by means of a cradle.
  8. To cut and lay (grain) with a cradle.
  9. To put ribs across the back of (a picture), to prevent the panels from warping.
forms

cradled · cradling · cradles

Phrases with cradle

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