1. • noun - a baby bed with sides and rockers
   • noun - where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence
   • noun - birth of a person
   • noun - a trough that can be rocked back and forth
   • verb - hold gently and carefully
   • verb - bring up from infancy
   • verb - hold or place in or as if in a cradle
   • verb - cut grain with a cradle scythe
   • verb - wash in a cradle
   • verb - run with the stick
2. • A small low bed for an infant, often furnished with rockers.
   • The earliest period of life: from the cradle to the grave.
   • A place of origin; a birthplace: the cradle of civilization.
   • A framework of wood or metal used to support something, such as a ship undergoing construction or repair.
   • A framework used to protect an injured limb.
   • A low flat framework that rolls on casters, used by a mechanic working beneath an automobile.
   • The part of a telephone that contains the connecting switch upon which the receiver and mouthpiece unit is supported.
   • A frame projecting above a scythe, used to catch grain as it is cut so that it can be laid flat.
   • A scythe equipped with such a frame.
   • A boxlike device furnished with rockers, used for washing gold-bearing dirt.
   • To place or retain in or as if in a cradle.
   • To care for or nurture in infancy.
   • To hold or support protectively: cradled the cat in his arms.
   • To reap (grain) with a cradle.
   • To place or support (a ship, for example) in a cradle.
   • To lie in or as if in a cradle.
3. • v - to nurture during infancy

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