Cradle

Definition: Cradle

Cradle

Noun

1. A baby bed with sides and rockers.

2. Where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence; "the birthplace of civilization".

3. Birth of a person; "he was taught from the cradle never to cry".

Verb

1. Hold gently and carefully; "He cradles the child in his arms".

2. Bring up from infancy.

3. Rock or place in or as if in a cradle; "He cradled the infant in his arms".

4. Cut grain with a cradle scythe.

5. Wash in a cradle; of gold.

6. Run with the stick, in Lacrosse.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "cradle" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Etymology: Cradle \Cra"dle\ (kr[=a]d'l), noun. [Anglo-Saxon cradel, cradol, probably from Celtic; compare to Gaelic creathall, Irish craidhal, Welsh cryd a shaking or rocking, a cradle; perhaps akin to English crate.]. (Websters 1913)

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Synonyms: Cradle

Aid

Cradle, nourish; nurture, nurse, dry nurse, suckle, put out to nurse; manure, cultivate, force; foster, cherish, foment; feed the flame, fan the flame.

Beginning

Origin; (cause); source, rise; bud, germ; egg, rudiment; genesis, primogenesis, birth, nativity, cradle, infancy; start, inception, creation, starting point; dawn; (morning); evolution.

Cause

Nest, cradle, nursery, womb, nidus, birthplace, hotbed.

Crossing

Cross, chain, wreath, braid, cat's cradle, knot; entangle; (disorder).

Furrow

Noun: furrow, groove, rut, sulcus, scratch, streak, striae, crack, score, incision, slit; chamfer, fluting; corduroy road, cradle hole.

Infant

In the cradle, in swaddling clothes, in long clothes, in arms, in leading strings; at the breast; in one's teens.

Location

Verb: place, situate, locate, localize, make a place for, put, lay, set, seat, station, lodge, quarter, post, install; house, stow; establish, fix, pin, root; graft; plant; (insert); shelve, pitch, camp, lay down, deposit, reposit; cradle; moor, tether, picket; pack, tuck in; embed, imbed; vest, invest in.

Preparation

Groundwork, first stone, cradle, stepping-stone; foundation, scaffold; (support); scaffolding, echafaudage.

Receptacle

Vessel, vase, bushel, barrel; canister, jar; pottle, basket, pannier, buck-basket, hopper, maund, creel, cran, crate, cradle, bassinet, wisket, whisket, jardiniere, corbeille, hamper, dosser, dorser, tray, hod, scuttle, utensil; brazier; cuspidor, spittoon.

Support

Bed, berth, pallet, tester, crib, cot, hammock, shakedown, trucklebed, cradle, litter, stretcher, bedstead; four poster, French bed, bunk, kip, palang; bedding, bichhona, mattress, paillasse; pillow, bolster; mat, rug, cushion.

Youth

Cradle, nursery, leading strings, pupilage, puberty, pucelage.

Crosswords: Cradle

The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world. (The Hand that Rocks the Cradle ; writing credit: Amanda Silver)

Here in the untainted cradle of the heavens will be created a new super race, a race of perfect physical specimens. (Moonraker; writing credit: Christopher Wood)

As the cars roar into Pennsylvania, the cradle of liberty, it seems apparent that our citizens are staying off the streets, which may make scoring particularly difficult, even with this year's rule changes. (Death Race 2000; writing credit: Ib Melchior; Robert Thom)

Individuality is a monster and it must be strangled in its cradle to make our friends feel comfortable. (The Killing; writing credit: Stanley Kubrick; Jim Thompson)

Yes the cradle of love don't rock easily It's true (CRADLE OF LOVE; performing artist: Billy Idol)

Cradle me, Mama, cradle me again (Stoney end; performing artist: Barbra Streisand)

The curtains are closed, the cats in the cradle ((I Just) Died In Your Arms; performing artist: Cutting Crew)

And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon ("The Cat's in the Cradle"; performing artist: Harry Chapin)

And cradle your sweet head (Wishing I Was There; performing artist: Natalie Imbruglia)

Cradle of Genius (1961)

Satan's Cradle (1949)

Cradle of a Nation (1947)

Movietone Adventure: Cradle of Liberty (1946)

White Cradle Inn (1946)

Cradle of Love (performing artist: Johnny Preston)

Cats In The Cradle (performing artist: Ugly Kid Joe)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Cradle & Crucible: History and Faith in the Middle East (reference)

• Cradle and All (reference)

• Cradle to Cradle (reference)

• Mary Higgins Clark: Three Complete Novels: Where Are the Children? a Stranger Is Watching, the Cradle Will Fall (reference)

• The Search of the Cradle of Civilization (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Cradle of Filth: From the Cradle to the Grave (reference)

• Cradle Will Rock (reference)

• Cradle of Filth: Heavy Left Handed and Candid (reference)

• The Cradle Will Fall (reference)

• The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Creek Drank the Cradle (reference)

• From the Cradle (reference)

• Out of the Cradle (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Fujifilm FinePix 4800 2.5MP Digital Camera in Cradle w/ 3x Optical Zoom (reference)

• Fujifilm FinePix F401 Cradle Only (reference)

• GBA Cradle & Storage- Fuchsia (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Koala Baby Cradle Sheet - Ecru (reference)

• Rubber Ducky - Cradle Swing (reference)

• Porcelain and Chrome Large Ladle Cradle (reference)

• WMF Metric Stainless Steel Single Bottle Wine Cradle (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The table sieve and cradle sieve, hopper and tray exposed. In: "Report on the Construction and Work in 1880 of United States Fish Commission Steamer FISH-HAWK", by Lieutenant Zera Luther Tanner, U. S. N. United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries. Part IX. Report of the Commissioner for 1881. Plate XI, p. 53. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

View on board, looking forward over the boat deck from the secondary conn, while the ship was at the New York Navy Yard after her last overhaul, 29 May 1942. Crude # "1" in white circle (center) marks the location of the 5"/25 loading practice machine. Other notable items include: boats and boat cradle in foreground; four Curtiss SOC "Seagull" floatplanes atop the catapults; crated food piled by the after smokestack; and USS Marblehead (CL-12) at left. Credit: NAVY.

View on deck, just aft of the forward superstructure, while the ship was at Alexandria, Egypt, probably in 1924. The after legs of the ship's tripod foremast are in the background, and a boat cradle is in the right foreground. Credit: NAVY.

Woman bending over cradle. Credit: Library of Congress.

The foot that rocks the cradle. Credit: Library of Congress.

A Mexican baby's cradle / Scott. Credit: Library of Congress.

Broadside view on launching cradle, launch S.S. Tionesta, Dec. 15, 1902. Credit: Library of Congress.

Conversion.Toy furniture to dies for incendiary bombs. The hands that rocks the cradle can also rock the Axis. American women are rapidly taking their places on the industrial front. Here in this small Midwest factory, the owner's wife operates one of the. Credit: Library of Congress.

Cradle on William McDermott farm near Anthon, Iowa. Credit: Library of Congress.

Bee Hive department store, business in Patchogue, Long Island. Cradle corner. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The woman had dropped upon her knees by the cradle, while he was speaking.

Half hid behind these beds was a willow cradle without curtains, in which the little boy who had cried all the evening was sleeping.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

A resident of Netherlands has traditionally been insured from the cradle to the grave under the generous, but costly, socialized welfare state. (references)

The DOH funds the NHS, the U.K. system of socialized medicine that provides universal, free healthcare services to U.K. residents "from cradle to grave. (references)

Economic History

The Netherlands

The Dutch stood at the cradle of the 1992 Maastricht Treaty and have been the architects of the Treaty of Amsterdam concluded in 1998. The Dutch thus have been playing an important role in European political and monetary integration. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "cradle": bouncing cradle ♦ cats cradle ♦ Cat's cradle ♦ cradle cap ♦ cradle guide ♦ Cradle hole ♦ Cradle scythe ♦ cradle vault ♦ Cratch cradle ♦ from the cradle to the grave ♦ Gold cradle ♦ rob the cradle ♦ scratch cradle ♦ sea cradle ♦ the cradle of civilization ♦ To cradle a picture ♦ travelling cradle ♦ wine cradle. Additional references.

Beginning with "cradle": cradle-clothes, cradle-grave, cradle-snatcher, cradle-snatching, cradle-song, cradle-switch, cradle-to-grave.

Ending with "cradle": bed-cradle, cat's-cradle, cats-cradle.

Albanian

vë në djep, tigan për larje floriri, përkund (dance, dandle, dangle, rock, shake), laj flori, fillim (beginning, breaking, coming-in, commencement, dawn, inception, incipience, initiation, lead off, offset, onset, opening, origin, origination, outset, prime, rise, river head, seed, send off, set out, start, term), djep (carry cot), burim (efflux, font, fount, fountain, fountain-head, mother, origin, parent, principle, provenance, provenience, radix, rill, root, source, spring, Springhead, wellhead, wellspring). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مهد (bed, even, flat, flatten, grade, level, pave, plane, roll, smooth), ‏موطن كل شىء, ‏وقاء (fender, guard, hedge, housing, rampart, shelter, shield), ‏وضع طفل في مهد, ‏حصد الزرع بمنجل, ‏حامل السماعة, ‏سرير طفل هزاز, ‏سرير طفل (cot, crib), ‏أمسك (bite, catch, get hold of, grasp, grip, gripe, hold, lay hold of, refrain, withhold), ‏أنشأ (construct, evolve, fabricate, father, form, foster, found, founder, germinate, institute, nurture, organize, originate, plant, start, structure, work up), ‏أداة من قضبان كمنجل, ‏ربى (bred, breed, bring up, educate, foster, invest, keep, nourish, nurse, nurture, raise, rear, school, sprout, tutor), ‏شبكة قضبان, ‏شبه فراش ذي دواليب. (various references)

Blackfoot

iitáísapssítsimao'p. (various references)

Bulgarian 

слагам в люлка, шина (runner, splint, split), гнездо (collet, housing, mortise, mounting, nest, rabbet, receptacle, socket), възпитавам (breed, bring up, discipline, educate, train), вилка на телефон, отглеждам (breed, bring up, cultivate, fledge, flower, grow, incubate, nourish, nurse, raise, rear, tend), опора (abut, anchor, anchorage, backlog, bearer, bulwark, buttress, column, crutch, dependence, faith, foothold, holder, jamb, lodgement, lodgment, mainstay, palladium, pillar, prop, purchase, rampart, rest, rock, roothold, sinews, staff, stand by, stay, stock, stronghold, support, tower, underpinning), люлка (nurse, swing), прегръщам (canoodle, clasp, clinch, cling, cuddle, embosom, embrace, enclasp, enfold, fold, inarm, pet), детска люлка. (various references)

Chinese 

搖籃 , 摇篮. (various references)

Czech

chovat (breed, entertain, Foster, Harbor, harbour, rear), vidlice (crotch, fork, hook), kolébka, houpat (bounce, sway). (various references)

Danish

vugge (bassinet, bassinette), vinvugge, vinkurv, underlag (backer, backing, base, basis, carrier, clamping block, firring, furring, packing block, packing piece, roadbed, shim, shim block, substrate, support, underlay), stroe (bearer plates, crosser, fillet, grit, piling stick, piling strip, pin, stacking strip, sticker, strip), stel (chassis, frame, framework, ground, rack, tubular support stays), stativ (craddle, multilevel tripod, rack, stand, tripod, variable height craddle), stålholder (tool holder), haengestillads (hanging scaffold, hanging stage, suspended scaffold, travelling cradle), gaffel (fork), fødested (place of birth), datterdok, beddingvogn, baerer (bearer plates). (various references)

Dutch

wieg (bassinet, bassinette, bearer plates, rocker). (various references)

Esperanto

naskiĝejo (place of birth), lulilo. (various references)

Farsi 

مهد (Nurse), گهواره , درچهارچوب یاکلاف قراردادن , درگهواره قراردادن . (various references)

Finnish

teränpidin (tool holder), terän pidin (tool holder), riipputeline (hanging scaffold, hanging stage, suspended scaffold, travelling cradle), putken perusta, putken alusta, dekantointikori. (various references)

French

berceau (cradling). (various references)

German

wiege (bassinet, bassinette, bearer plates, bogie bolster, bolster, bolster beam, rocker, truck bolster), wiegen (cradles, dandle, lull, nurse, rock, scale, shake, sway, to dandle, to weigh, weigh), schlitten (car, carriage, motor, sled, sledge, sleigh, slide, toboggan), gabel (branch, fork, gable, pitchfork, receiver rest, rest, shafts, yoke). (various references)

Greek 

κούνια (crib, hammock, sling, swing), λίκνο (incunabula). (various references)

Hebrew 

עריס�" (crib), ערש (bed, couch, crib). (various references)

Hungarian

lengőállvány (cripple), bölcső. (various references)

Icelandic

fæðingarstaður (place of birth). (various references)

Indonesian

dondang, ayunan (sling, swaying). (various references)

Italian

culla (cot, crib, place, place of birth), luogo d'origine (place, place of birth). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

発祥地 (birthplace), 揺りか�" . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ゆりか�", ようら�" (handbook, orchid of Western origin, outline, summary, survey), ようじ (baby, child, infant, tasks, things to do, toothpick, using characters), はっしょうち (birthplace). (various references)

Korean 

�"람. (various references)

Manx

cur ayns clean (cage), clean (bird cage, cot, pannier, potato creel, twig basket). (various references)

Norwegian

vugge. (various references)

Papago

ulukud. (various references)

Pig Latin

adlecray

Portuguese

cutelo (chopper, cutlass, gore, logger, log-man), cabeçote porta-ferramentas (tool holder), cama (bed, couch, kip, lying, roost, shikar), cesto (basket, coop, henhouse, pannier, skep), colocar no berço, cuidar (attend, care, cherish, lap, nurse, take care, worry), criar (beget, breed, bring up, coin, create, educate, form, foster, generate, keep, make, make up, mint, nurture, originate, preserve, raise, rear), pôr tala, andaime suspenso (hanging scaffold, hanging stage, suspended scaffold, travelling cradle), apoio (aid, backing, backup, bearer, buttress, cheer, countenance, furtherance, hold, holder, holdfast, prop, protection, staff, stay, strength, support, tie-plate, toehold, upholder), armação (armature, brace, cadre, cage, carcass, casement, easel, fittings, frame, ribbing, rigging, scaffold, setting, skeleton, tackle, truss), bateria oscilante, terra natal (birth place, home, native land, native town), picadeiro (horsemanship, lunge, manege), lavrar ouro, andaime elevatório (hanging scaffold, hanging stage, suspended scaffold, travelling cradle), leito (bed, channel, ground, lay, layer, lying, runway), travessa de testeiro (crib, stillage), embalar (box, dandle, lull, pack, rock), fundação (establishment, foundry, institution), gancho de telefone, tala (bond, fish, splint). (various references)

Romanian

sanie de lansare, pune în leagãn, ocroti (befriend, defend, Foster, patronize, safeguard, shelter, shield), legãna (balance, dangle, rock, stagger, sway, swing, undulate, wave), leagãn (creche, rocker, swing), jgheab (chase, conduct, eaves, flume, flute, groove, gully, gutter, horse-pond, jet, notch, rifle, sewer, shoe, spout, trough, valley), furcã (distaff, fork, hay fork, pitchfork, prong, receiver rest, rock). (various references)

Romansch

tgina. (various references)

Romany

kookoozì. (various references)

Russian 

начало (beginning, breaking, commencement, go off, go-off, inception, incipience, kick off, leader, onset, opening, origin, origination, outbreak, outset, prime, proem, set out, start). (various references)

Scottish

creathall (a lamprey). (various references)

Sepedi

thari. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

podloga (base, bolster, groundwork, pad), ljuljati (rock, seesaw, swing), kolevka (bassinet). (various references)

Spanish

cuna (bassinet, cot, crib, place of birth), patria (fatherland, home, homeland, mother country, motherland, native, native country, native land, place of birth). (various references)

Swedish

vagga (cot, rock, swing, wag, waggle, wave, wobble). (various references)

Turkish

yetiştirmek (breed, bring up, coach, cultivate, discipline, educate, farm, groom, grow, nurture, produce, raise, rear, rush, school, train, turn out), tırpan ile ot biçmek, sakınmak (abstain, avoid, be careful not to, be cautious, be wary of, be wary of doing smth., beg, beware, eschew, evade, flee from, flinch, forbear, hang back, keep clear of, refrain, shuffle, shun, shy, steer clear of, Stow), kızak (carrier, chock, coaster, drag, gantry, gauntry, Shipway, skid, sled, sledge, slide, slipway, stock, toboggan), kırık kemiğin sarıldığı tahta parçaları, gemi kızağı (Shipway, slip, slipway), beşik (bassinet, crib), beşiğe yatırmak, başlangıç (approach, beginning, big bang, commencement, commencing, dawn, departure, doorway, early, elementary, exordium, first, go off, inception, incipience, incipiency, incunabula, infancy, introduction, lead off, morning, off, onset, origin, outset, preamble, preliminary, prelude, prime, proem, prolog, prologue, push off, setout, start, starting, take off, toe-hold), özenle kucaklamak. (various references)

Ukrainian

колиска (bucket), гойдати (dandle, sway, swing, waff, wag, wiggle), виховувати з дитинства, опора (anchorage, anchorage-ground, backing, bearer, buttress, crutch, footing, holdfast, pillar, reliance, stay, steady, stilt, stock, support, tower), початок (authorship, beginning, breaking, commencement, dawn, dawning, day-spring, first, inception, incipience, morning, mother, onset, opening, origin, original, origination, outset, prime, proem, prolog, prologue, set out, start, starting, womb), джерело (authorship, beginning, channel, derivation, fount, fountain-head, headspring, lymph, origin, parent, paternity, principle, progenitor, quarry, radix, source, spring, well, wellspring, whence). (various references)

Vietnamese 

nơi bắt ngu�"n, gi� còn thích chơi trống bỏi, gốc (coppice-clump, group, origin, principle, radical, sprang, spring, sprung). (various references)

Welsh

crud, cawell (basket, hamper), cadair (chair, seat, udder). (various references)

cunabula. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "cradle": cradled, cradler, cradlers, cradles, cradlesong, cradlesongs. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Cradle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cadilhe, cadle, cardal, cardel, Cardille, Ceadel, cerade, Chaldaea, Chaldaei, Chaldee, ciradel, Cordale, crable, cracle, craddle, cradel, cradele, cradl, cradly, Cragdale, crale, Cramley, Cratloe, Crawle, Creakle, Credfl, credle, Crendle, Criddle, cridge, crile, Cromdale, Crudele, Kardelj, Mccardle, Mcreadie, Mcreddie. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: credal, reclad.

-1 letter: acred, alder, arced, cadre, cared, carle, cedar, clade, clear, decal, laced, lacer, lader, raced.

-2 letters: aced, acre, alec, cade, card, care, carl, clad, dace, dale, dare, deal, dear, earl, lace, lade, lard, lead, lear, race, rale, read, real.

-3 letters: ace, ale, arc, are, cad, car, cel, dal, del, ear, eld, era, lac, lad.

+1 letter: caldera, candler, caroled, cleared, craaled, cradled, cradler, cradles, crawled, creedal, declare, decrial, radicel, radicle, relaced.

+2 letters: articled, auricled, barleduc, calderas, calendar, calender, calibred, candlers, carolled, cellared, chandler, clamored, clavered, colander, coleader, collared, conelrad, crackled, cradlers, crankled, declared, declarer, declares, decretal, decrials, heraldic, lacertid, lackered, parceled, radicels, radicles, recalled, recoaled, replaced, rescaled, sacredly, scrawled, trachled.