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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
- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
Infancy, or very early life.
- 3noun
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.
- 4noun
A tool used in mezzotint engraving, which, by a rocking motion, raises burrs on the surface of the plate, so preparing the ground.
- 5noun
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.
- 6noun
A case for a broken or dislocated limb.
- 7noun
A frame to keep the bedclothes from contact with the person.
- 8noun
A machine on rockers, used in washing out auriferous earth; -- also called a rocker.
- 9noun
A suspended scaffold used in shafts.
- 10noun
The ribbing for vaulted ceilings and arches intended to be covered with plaster.
- 11noun
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.
- 12transitive verb
To lay to rest, or rock, as in a cradle; to lull or quiet, as by rocking.
- 13transitive verb
To nurse or train in infancy.
- 14transitive verb
To cut and lay with a cradle, as grain.
- 15transitive verb
To transport a vessel by means of a cradle.
- 16intransitive verb
To lie or lodge, as in a cradle.
- 17noun
a baby bed with sides and rockers
- 18noun
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
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- 19noun
where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence
"the birthplace of civilization"
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- 20noun
birth of a person
"he was taught from the cradle never to cry"
- 21verb
run with the stick
- 22verb
hold gently and carefully
"He cradles the child in his arms"
- 23verb
wash in a cradle
"cradle gold"
- 24verb
cut grain with a cradle scythe
- 25verb
hold or place in or as if in a cradle
"He cradled the infant in his arms"
- 26verb
bring up from infancy
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