Definition of Cradle

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Cradle

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.

Infancy, or very early life.

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.

A tool used in mezzotint engraving, which, by a rocking motion, raises burrs on the surface of the plate, so preparing the ground.

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.

A case for a broken or dislocated limb.

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

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

A suspended scaffold used in shafts.

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

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.

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

To nurse or train in infancy.

To cut and lay with a cradle, as grain.

To transport a vessel by means of a cradle.

To lie or lodge, as in a cradle.

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Cradle Quotations

The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.
Martin Luther

To my way of thinking, an actor's course is set even before he's out of the cradle.
James Dean

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.
Jane Austen

Better murder an infant in its cradle than nurse an unacted desire.
William Blake

What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
Henry Ward Beecher

Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance.
Alfred Adler

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.
Charles Dickens

From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
Bertolt Brecht

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.
Vladimir Nabokov

If you give me any problem in America I can trace it down to domestic violence. It is the cradle of most of the problems, economic, psychological, educational.
Salma Hayek

Cradle Translations

cradle in Dutch is wieg
cradle in French is berceau
Cradle in German is Wiege
cradle in Italian is culla
cradle in Latin is cunabula
cradle in Norwegian is vugge
cradle in Spanish is cuna
cradle in Swedish is vagga

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