Antonyms for
cradle
A bed or cot for a baby, oscillating on rockers or swinging on pivots.
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No Antonyms Found for Cradle

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All Definitions for Cradle

Below are all the dictionary definitions of cradle:

1A bed or cot for a baby, oscillating on rockers or swinging on pivots.
2The place of origin, or in which anything is nurtured or protected in the earlier period of existence.
3Infancy, or very early life.
4To rock (a baby to sleep).
5To contain in or as if in a cradle.
6To wrap protectively, to hold gently and protectively.
7To lull or quieten, as if by rocking.
8To nurse or train in infancy.
9An implement consisting 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.
10To cut and lay (grain) with a cradle.
11A 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.
12A machine on rockers, used in washing out auriferous earth.
13A 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.
14A rest for the receiver of a telephone, or for certain computer hardware.
15A tool used in mezzotint engraving, which, by a rocking motion, raises burrs on the surface of the plate, so as to prepare the ground.
16A case for a broken or dislocated limb.
17A frame to keep the bedclothes from contact with the sensitive parts of an injured person.
18A ribbing for vaulted ceilings and arches intended to be covered with plaster.
19To rock the lacrosse stick back and forth in order to keep the ball in the head by means of centrifugal force.
20To transport a vessel by means of a cradle.
21A suspended scaffold used in shafts.
22A hand position allowing a contact ball to be held steadily on the back of the hand.
23A mechanical device for tilting and decanting a bottle of wine.
24To put ribs across the back of (a picture), to prevent the panels from warping.

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About antonyms for cradle

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