Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word CRADLE

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Definitions of CRADLE

1. A bed or cot for a baby, oscillating on rockers or swinging on pivots.
2. 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.
3. A tool used in mezzotint engraving, which, by a rocking motion, raises burrs on the surface of the plate, so preparing the ground.
4. 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.
5. A case for a broken or dislocated limb.
6. A frame to keep the bedclothes from contact with the sensitive parts of an injured person.
7. A rest for the receiver of a telephone, or for certain computer hardware.
8. A mechanical device for tilting and decanting a bottle of wine.
9. To lull or quieten, as if by rocking.
10. To nurse or train in infancy.
11. To cut and lay (grain) with a cradle.
12. To transport a vessel by means of a cradle.
13. To put ribs across the back of (a picture), to prevent the panels from warping.
14. (figuratively) The place of origin, or in which anything is nurtured or protected in the earlier period of existence.
15. (figuratively) Infancy, or very early life.
16. (mining) A machine on rockers, used in washing out auriferous earth.
17. (mining) A suspended scaffold used in shafts.
18. (carpentry) A ribbing for vaulted ceilings and arches intended to be covered with plaster.
19. (nautical) 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.
20. (contact juggling) A hand position allowing a contact ball to be held steadily on the back of the hand.
21. (transitive) To contain in or as if in a cradle.
22. (transitive) To rock (a baby to sleep).
23. (transitive) To wrap protectively, to hold gently and protectively.
24. (lacrosse) To rock the lacrosse stick back and forth in order to keep the ball in the head by means of centrifugal force.

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Examples of Using CRADLE in a Sentence

• He was brought up and enormously influenced by his grandmother, who "sang me ancient songs before I could talk, told me stories from heathen times and sang me cradle songs from the Catholic era".
• Iraq, a country located in West Asia, largely coincides with the ancient region of Mesopotamia, often referred to as the cradle of civilization.
• At age 21, Welles was directing high-profile stage productions for the Federal Theatre Project in New York City—starting with a celebrated 1936 adaptation of Macbeth with an African-American cast, and ending with the controversial labor opera The Cradle Will Rock in 1937.
• The island has several nicknames: "Garden of the Gulf", "Birthplace of Confederation" and "Cradle of Confederation".
• De Mornay is also known for her roles in The Slugger's Wife (1985), Runaway Train (1985), The Trip to Bountiful (1985), Backdraft (1991), and The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992).
• In the legend, Llywelyn the Great returns from hunting to find his baby missing, the cradle overturned, and Gelert with a blood-smeared mouth.
• Cat's Cradle is a satirical postmodern novel, with science fiction elements, by American writer Kurt Vonnegut.
• Rooted in rich entrepreneurial tradition since the industrial revolution era, it served as the cradle for top-level engineers and executives who continue to constitute a major part of the industry leadership in France.
• Major features are Cradle Mountain and Barn Bluff in the northern end, Mount Pelion East, Mount Pelion West, Mount Oakleigh and Mount Ossa in the middle and Lake St Clair in the southern end of the park.
• Originally called Isla del Pasaje and Isla de San Ildefonso, Culebra is also known as Isla Chiquita ("Little Island"), Cuna del Sol Borincano ("Cradle of the Puerto Rican Sun") and Última Virgen ("Last Virgin", due to its position at the end of the Virgin Islands archipelago).
• Carl Gustaf was baptised in Charles XI's baptismal font, which stood on Gustav III's carpet; he lay in Charles XI's cradle with Oscar II's crown beside him.
• Other nicknames include "World's Whitest Beaches" (due to the white sand of Florida panhandle beaches), "Cradle of Naval Aviation", "Western Gate to the Sunshine State", "America's First Settlement", "Emerald Coast", "Redneck Riviera", and "P-Cola".
• The historical society notes that Uxbridge is the "Heart of The Blackstone Valley" and is also known as "the Cradle of the Industrial Revolution".
• The Mark region was the cradle of Sweden's textile industry and has since the late 18th century been known as the Fabric Kingdom due to the widespread textile workmanship that comes from the region.
• Friedrich Ernst, Industry's founder, settled here in 1831 and gained Industry the title "Cradle of German Settlement in Texas" (see German Texan).
• The town is best known as the "cradle of American horse racing" and as the home of the second-oldest Masonic Lodge in Virginia, Kilwinning Crosse, No.
• The old Sugar Loaf community, historically called the "Cradle of Killeen," provided the city with many of its first citizens in 1882.
• Other historians make Mannheim, Germany, the cradle of the family, and begin its history with Ranulph, or Rudolph de Manning, Count Palatine, who, having married Elgida, aunt to King Harold I of England, had a grant of land in Kent, England.
• Heinrich and Anna were able to live as husband and wife, even though not legally married, because the bishop of Constance, who had clerical oversight over Aargau, had unofficially sanctioned clerical concubinage by waiving penalties against the offense in exchange for an annual fee, called a cradle tax.
• D, Aimee Mann, Uriah Heep, King Crimson, Cradle of Filth, John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers, Jethro Tull, The Moody Blues, MGMT, Nas, Andrew Bird) and from Denmark (D.
• Celia was one of the eldest among fourteen children living in the house, including cousins and her three siblings, Dolores, Gladys, and Bárbaro, and she used to sing cradle songs to put them to sleep.
• The region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, historically known as Mesopotamia, is often referred to as the cradle of civilisation.
• He made his directorial film debut with the B-Movie Sweet Kill (1972), followed by the comedy film Losin' It (1983), and the thrillers The Bedroom Window (1987), Bad Influence (1990), The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992), and The River Wild (1994).
• Cradle of Filth's first three years saw three demos (Invoking the Unclean, Orgiastic Pleasures Foul and Total Fucking Darkness) recorded amidst the sort of rapid line-up fluctuations that have continued ever since, with the band having more than thirty musicians in its history.
• Foma, a term meaning "harmless untruths" from the fictional religion Bokononism in Kurt Vonnegut's novel Cat's Cradle.

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