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Cradle :: Cradle (n.) 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..

Solen :: Solen (n.) A cradle, as for a broken limb. See Cradle, 6..

Hopperings :: Hopperings (n.) Gravel retaining in the hopper of a cradle.

Cradle :: Cradle (n.) A suspended scaffold used in shafts.

Cradle :: Cradle (n.) The ribbing for vaulted ceilings and arches intended to be covered with plaster.

Cradle :: Cradle (n.) 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..

Cradle :: Cradle (n.) A frame to keep the bedclothes from contact with the person.

Cradle :: Cradle (n.) Infancy, or very early life..

Cradled :: Cradled (imp. & p. p.) of Cradl.

Rocker :: Rocker (n.) One who rocks; specifically, one who rocks a cradle..

Nativity :: Nativity (n.) A picture representing or symbolizing the early infancy of Christ. The simplest form is the babe in a rude cradle, and the heads of an ox and an ass to express the stable in which he was born..

Rocker :: Rocker (n.) A skate with a curved blade, somewhat resembling in shape the rocker of a cradle..

Cradle :: Cradle (v. t.) To cut and lay with a cradle, as grain..

Rocker :: Rocker (n.) One of the curving pieces of wood or metal on which a cradle, chair, etc., rocks..

Cradling :: Cradling (n.) The act of using a cradle.

Cradle :: Cradle (n.) 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..

Cradle :: Cradle (n.) A machine on rockers, used in washing out auriferous earth; -- also called a rocker..

Rock :: Rock (v. t.) To cause to sway backward and forward, as a body resting on a support beneath; as, to rock a cradle or chair; to cause to vibrate; to cause to reel or totter..

Cradle :: Cradle (v. t.) To transport a vessel by means of a cradle.

Cradle :: Cradle (n.) A tool used in mezzotint engraving, which, by a rocking motion, raises burrs on the surface of the plate, so preparing the ground..

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