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Cradle   /krˈeɪdəl/   Listen
Cradle

noun
1.
A baby bed with sides and rockers.
2.
Where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence.  Synonyms: birthplace, place of origin, provenance, provenience.
3.
Birth of a person.
4.
A trough that can be rocked back and forth; used by gold miners to shake auriferous earth in water in order to separate the gold.  Synonym: rocker.
verb
(past & past part. cradled; pres. part. cradling)
1.
Hold gently and carefully.
2.
Bring up from infancy.
3.
Hold or place in or as if in a cradle.
4.
Cut grain with a cradle scythe.
5.
Wash in a cradle.
6.
Run with the stick.



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"Cradle" Quotes from Famous Books



... our young men and women, you will find that with the opportunity for employment they want assurance against the evils of all major economic hazards—assurance that will extend from the cradle to the grave. And this great Government can and must ...
— State of the Union Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt • Franklin D. Roosevelt

... poss'ble," pursued Mrs. Chump. "Why do I 'gree to marry Pole? Just this, now. We sit chirpin' and chatterin' of times that's gone, and live twice over, Pole and myself; and I'm used to 'm; and I was soft to 'm when he was a merry buck, and you cradle lumber in ideas, mind! for my vartue was always un'mpeach'ble. That's just the reason. So, come, and let's all be friends, with money in our pockuts; yell find me as much of a garl as army of ye. And, there! my ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... on me, my fellow countrymen, From the same Fatherland! On me, so young, Passing o'er the last road, gazing for the last time On Helios—to see him rise no more for ever! In his cold cradle Death rolls all asleep; Me living he conducts to his black shores; Me wretched! unbetrothed! upon whose ears No bridal chant has ever hymned its joys, Stern Acheron alone calls to his side, And Death must be my icy ...
— The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 - Devoted To Literature And National Policy • Various

... codger. He used to say he could cradle four acres of grain in a day when he was a boy on a farm, or split and lay up three hundred ...
— The Wrong Twin • Harry Leon Wilson

... the sky and the rain was coming in. On the side toward the German line there was no wall. There were no partitions, no windows, only a few broken sticks of what had been furniture. And in one corner, partly filled with rain water, a child's cradle that had ...
— Kings, Queens And Pawns - An American Woman at the Front • Mary Roberts Rinehart


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