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noun

Cradling n.

The act of using a cradle.

(Coopering) Cutting a cask into two pieces lengthwise, to enable it to pass a narrow place, the two parts being afterward united and rehooped.

(Carp.) The framework in arched or coved ceilings to which the laths are nailed.

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Etymology of 'Cradling'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Cradling" Quotes from Famous Books

... a trail of bubbles as her head went under, she set the Judge's invention down on a lower step and picked up the Judge instead. Cradling him in her arms, she started back up again, calling to Farmer to be ready to ...

— Stairway to the Stars • Larry Shaw

... cloud flecked the sky. Out of the south the wind blew softly. The smooth sea rippled blue and white in the gentle breeze. The little boat, cradling its dead, rocked ...

— And Thus He Came • Cyrus Townsend Brady

... the torrent of agony that hammered back and forth from temple to temple. James watched Brennan with cold detachment, Professor White and Jack Cowling looked on in paralyzed horror. Slowly, oh, so slowly, Paul Brennan managed to squirm around until he was sitting on the floor still cradling his head ...

— The Fourth R • George Oliver Smith

... her, cradling her in her arms. "You little silly," she said tenderly. "You dear little goose. Don't you believe any such nonsense as that. We are in a condition of turmoil, our United States and all the rest of the world. It is not the affairs of your ...

— Eve to the Rescue • Ethel Hueston

... packet in his right hand, Lagardere might well have been tempted to believe that the whole episode was no more than the fancy of a dream. He thrust the packet into his breast, and then moved slowly towards the centre of the moat, tenderly cradling his precious charge. Peering closely down at the bundle, he could dimly discern what seemed to be a baby face among the encircling folds of silk which wrapped the child. It was sleeping soundly; the ...

— The Duke's Motto - A Melodrama • Justin Huntly McCarthy

... cradling lent us here, To cheer our lot, It was a cherub in disguise, But yet our dim and ...

— Man of Uz, and Other Poems • Lydia Howard Sigourney

... book-shelves; only, instead of hanging firmly against a wall, they swayed to and fro at the least suggestion of motion, but were more especially lively upon the provocation of a green emigrant sprawling into one, and trying to lay himself out there, when the cradling would be such as almost to toss him back whence he came. In consequence, one less inexperienced, essaying repose on the uppermost shelf, was liable to serious disturbance, should a raw beginner select a shelf beneath. Sometimes ...

— The Confidence-Man • Herman Melville