cradle

cradle is a 6-letter English word with 26 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 11 · 26 senses

Definitions

1. noun. 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.
2. noun. Infancy, or very early life.
3. noun. 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.
4. noun. A tool used in mezzotint engraving, which, by a rocking motion, raises burrs on the surface of the plate, so preparing the ground.
5. noun. 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. noun. A case for a broken or dislocated limb.
7. noun. A frame to keep the bedclothes from contact with the person.
8. noun. A machine on rockers, used in washing out auriferous earth; -- also called a rocker.
9. noun. A suspended scaffold used in shafts.
10. noun. The ribbing for vaulted ceilings and arches intended to be covered with plaster.
11. noun. 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.
12. transitive verb. To lay to rest, or rock, as in a cradle; to lull or quiet, as by rocking.
13. transitive verb. To nurse or train in infancy.
14. transitive verb. To cut and lay with a cradle, as grain.
15. transitive verb. To transport a vessel by means of a cradle.
16. intransitive verb. To lie or lodge, as in a cradle.
17. noun. a baby bed with sides and rockers
18. noun. 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

    Synonyms: rocker

19. noun. where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence

    "the birthplace of civilization"

    Synonyms: birthplace, provenance, provenience

20. noun. birth of a person

    "he was taught from the cradle never to cry"

21. verb. run with the stick
22. verb. hold gently and carefully

    "He cradles the child in his arms"

23. verb. wash in a cradle

    "cradle gold"

24. verb. cut grain with a cradle scythe
25. verb. hold or place in or as if in a cradle

    "He cradled the infant in his arms"

26. verb. bring up from infancy

Synonyms

rocker, birthplace, provenance, provenience

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in cradle:

calder, cardel, credal, reclad

Common word forms

cradled, cradler, cradles, cradling

Words from these letters

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