Crossword-Solution: CRADLE 6 letters, 131 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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Word	Word Type	Definition
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	n.	Infancy, or very early life.
Cradle	n.	An 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.
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.
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.
Cradle	n.	A case for a broken or dislocated limb.
Cradle	n.	A frame to keep the bedclothes from contact with the person.
Cradle	n.	A machine on rockers, used in washing out auriferous earth; -- also called a rocker.
Cradle	n.	A suspended scaffold used in shafts.
Cradle	n.	The ribbing for vaulted ceilings and arches intended to be covered with plaster.
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	v. t.	To lay to rest, or rock, as in a cradle; to lull or quiet, as by rocking.
Cradle	v. t.	To nurse or train in infancy.
Cradle	v. t.	To cut and lay with a cradle, as grain.
Cradle	v. t.	To transport a vessel by means of a cradle.
Cradle	v. i.	To lie or lodge, as in a cradle.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
CRADLE	anagram	CALDER, DARCEL, RECLAD

We have 131 clues for the answer “CRADLE”

Clue	Answers
"Rock-a-Bye, Baby" rocker	1 answer
Ancestor of the bassinet.	1 answer
Baby rocker	1 answer
Baby's rocking bed	1 answer
Base for a PDA	1 answer
Bed in the nursery	1 answer
Bed on rockers	1 answer
Bed with rockers	1 answer
Birthplace metaphor	1 answer
Birthplace, metaphorically	1 answer
Carry protectively	1 answer
Cat's ___ (game played with string)	1 answer
Cat's ___ (game)	1 answer
Charging station for a smartphone	1 answer
Charles Blake subject	1 answer
Early bed	1 answer
FRAMEWORK for ship during construction or repairs	1 answer
Faneuil Hall or "___ of Liberty."	1 answer
Faneuil Hall, "___ of Liberty."	1 answer
Framework for ships.	1 answer
Grave's counterpart	1 answer
Handset holder	1 answer
Handset's place	1 answer
Hold Gently Apply	1 answer
Hold protectively	1 answer
Infancy, figuratively	1 answer
Infant bed	1 answer
It rocks when the wind blows	1 answer
It's often rocked	1 answer
Junior rocker	1 answer
Kid rocker	1 answer
Kiddie cot	1 answer
Little bed.	1 answer
Lullaby rocker	1 answer
Lullaby site	1 answer
Metaphor for early nurturing	1 answer
Metaphor for nurturing	1 answer
Metaphorical birthplace	1 answer
Nest for the wee	1 answer
Nursery item that falls out of a tree in the rhyme "Rock-a-Bye Baby"	1 answer
Nursery rocker	1 answer
Old-fashioned bed.	1 answer
One may be a rocker	1 answer
Oscillating bed.	1 answer
Phone home?	1 answer
Phone receiver's spot	1 answer
Pinning hold in wrestling	1 answer
Place of rest: Poet.	1 answer
Place to sing "Rock-a-Bye Baby"	1 answer
Punk rocker?	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

TREAE

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with CRADLE (5)

Between the mixing-board and the stove stood the old cradle that had been Amédée’s, and in it was his black-eyed son.

O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991

Our mental existences, which are immaterial and have no dimensions, are passing along the Time-Dimension with a uniform velocity from the cradle to the grave.

The Time Machine H. G. Wells 1992

Have you ever been really frank with this preceptor of your childhood, even when you _were_ a child? Think a minute, have you? Of course not! From your cradle, as I once told you, you’ve been ‘doing it’ on the side, living your own life, admitting to yourself things that would horrify him.

The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992

PART ONE From Freedom to Slavery CHAPTER 1 African Origins The Human Cradle THREE and a half centuries of immigration have injected ever-fresh doses of energy and tension into the American bloodstream.

The Black Experience in America Norman Coombs 2008

Inside the den they saw the strange white ape lying half across a table, his head buried in his arms; and on the bed lay a figure covered by a sailcloth, while from a tiny rustic cradle came the plaintive wailing of a babe.

Tarzan of the Apes Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993

Quotes with CRADLE (3)

Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently. Some people say there are true things to be found, some people say all kinds of things can be proved. I don't believe them. The only thing for certain is how complicated it all is, like string full of knots. It's all there but hard to find the beginning and impossible to fathom the end. The best you can do is admire the cat's cradle, and maybe knot it up a bit more.

Jeanette Winterson Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

No wonder kids grow up crazy. A cat's cradle is nothing but a bunch of X's between somebody's hands, and little kids look and look and look at all those X's . . ." "And?" "No damn cat, and no damn cradle.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Cat's Cradle

Close your eyes and picture it. Can you see it?" I nod, eyes closed. its texture, shape, and color — got it?" I smile, holding the image in my head. its contours with the tips of your fingers, cradle its weight in the palms of your hands, then combine all of your senses — sight, touch, smell, taste — can you taste it?" I bite my lip and suppress a giggle. it!" he says. So I do. I do all of those things. And when he groans, I open my eyes to see for myself.. This isn't even cl…

Alyson Noel Blue Moon

Where this answer appears

Appears in: AARP, Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 129 times in crossword archives (1943–2025).