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Definition: Cat's Cradle |
Cat's CradleNoun1. Game played with string looped over the fingers. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Literature | Cat's Cradle A child's play, with a piece of twine. Corrupt for cratchcradle or manger cradle, in which the infant Saviour was laid. Cratch is the French crèche (a rack or manger), and to the present hour the racks which stand in fields for cattle to eat from are called cratches. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Crossing | Cross, chain, wreath, braid, cat's cradle, knot; entangle; (disorder). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Cat's Cradle |
| English words defined with "cat's cradle": Cratch cradle. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Cat's Cradle (1992) | |
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| Language | Translations for "cat's cradle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Japanese Kanji | 綾取り , 綾取 . (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | あやとり. (various references) | ||||
Manx | clean kayt. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | at'scay adlecray | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "'-a-a-c-c-d-e-l-r-s-t" | |
-3 letters: cadaster, cadastre, calderas, cardcase. | |
-4 letters: acetals, alcades, arcades, calcars, caldera, carates, carcase, carcels, cartels, cascade, castled, clarets, craaled, cradles, crestal, dartles, lactase, laterad, redacts, saccade, saccate, scalade, scalare, scarlet, scarted. | |
-5 letters: acetal, alated, alates, alcade, alders, alerts, altars, alters, arcade, arecas, artels, astral, cadets, cadres, caecal, caesar, calcar, calces, calesa, carate, carats, carcel. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Translations: Modern 7. Anagrams 8. Bibliography |
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