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Hush-a-by, baby, upon the tree-top; / When the wind blows the cradle will rock; / When the bough breaks the cradle will fall; / Down will come cradle and baby and all.
a form of worship in which they had been educated from their cradle
An implementconsisting 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.
A frame to keep the bedclothes from contact with the sensitive parts of an injured person.
(mining) A machine on rockers, used in washing out auriferous earth.
1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 146:
Rough men brought pickle bottles full of nuggets. Mysterious dirty-looking calico bags were opened, disclosing small quantities of water-worn flaky gold, which had been washed out of the beds of rivers with a cradle.
1853, Samuel Charles Brees, The Illustrated Glossary of Practical Architecture and Civil Engineering:
A strong iron bar is fixed at the top of each cradle, to which the suspending chains are attached; the latter pass over the sheaves, and the cradles are kept in a horizontal position, by means of an adjusting rod placed above them
(nautical) A 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.
The cradle was ill-made. One victim fell into the sea and was lost and the ensuing delay cost three more lives.
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Edward H[enry] Knight (1877) “Cradle”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary., volumes I (A–GAS), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton, →OCLC.: “In Lombardy […] boats are cradled and transported over the grade.”
To put ribs across the back of (a picture), to prevent the panels from warping.