Definitions for cradling

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cradling cra·dling

Spelling: [kreyd-l-ing]

IPA: /ˈkreɪd l ɪŋ/

Cradling is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 332 anagrams from letters in cradling (acdgilnr).

Definitions for cradling

noun

1. framework for supporting a coved or vaulted ceiling.
2. a small bed for an infant, usually on rockers.
3. any of various supports for objects set horizontally, as the support for the handset of a telephone.
4. the place where anything is nurtured during its early existence:
5. Agriculture. a frame of wood with a row of long curved teeth projecting above and parallel to a scythe, for laying grain in bunches as it is cut. a scythe together with the cradle in which it is set.
6. a wire or wicker basket used to hold a wine bottle in a more or less horizontal position while the wine is being served.
7. Artillery. the part of a gun carriage on which a recoiling gun slides.
8. a landing platform for ferryboats, rolling on inclined tracks to facilitate loading and unloading at different water levels.
9. Aeronautics. a docklike structure in which a rigid or semirigid airship is built or is supported during inflation.
10. Automotive. creeper (def 6).
11. Nautical. a shaped support for a boat, cast, etc.; chock. truss (def 9).
12. Shipbuilding. a moving framework on which a hull slides down the ways when launched. a built-up form on which plates of irregular form are shaped.
13. Medicine/Medical. a frame that prevents the bedclothes from touching an injured part of a bedridden patient.
14. Mining. a box on rockers for washing sand or gravel to separate gold or other heavy metal.
15. an engraver's tool for laying mezzotint grounds.
16. Painting. a structure of wooden strips attached to the back of a panel, used as a support and to prevent warping.

Idioms

1. rob the cradle, Informal. to marry, court, or date a person much younger than oneself.

verb (used with object)

1. to hold gently or protectively.
2. to place or rock in or as in an infant's cradle.
3. to nurture during infancy.
4. to receive or hold as a cradle.
5. to cut (grain) with a cradle.
6. to place (a vessel) on a cradle.
7. Mining. to wash (sand or gravel) in a cradle; rock.
8. Painting. to support (a panel) with a cradle.

verb (used without object)

1. to lie in or as if in a cradle.
2. to cut grain with a cradle scythe.

Origin of cradling

First recorded in 1810-20; cradle + -ing¹

Examples for cradling

He too is cradling an AK-47 with a huge 75-round magazine attached.

Frightened and astonished, Eveley soothed her, cradling her in her arms.

All those huddled in the background, cradling their own unheard hip-hop demos.

cradling him tenderly in his arms, he got quietly to his feet.

One man did the cradling and another the gathering and the binding into sheaves.

This rocky Scandinavian peninsula was cradling the masters of the world.

“I know,” she said, hugging him and cradling his head against her chest.

No task save that of "cradling" surpassed in severity "binding on a station."

Think of the days of reaping, of cradling, of raking and binding and mowing.

cradling the radio against his chest, Brion rose to his feet.