cradle

Definitions

General English

• noun a baby’s bed which can be rocked
• noun a support for a piece of machinery
• noun a place where something started
• verb to hold something gently in your arms or hands

Construction

• A scaffold that is suspended outside the roof or top of a structure.
• A U-shaped support for pipe or conduit.

Cricket

• noun an apparatus used for catching practice, consisting of a concave, roughly boat-shaped frame fitted with wooden slats; balls are thrown at the cradle with a low trajectory, especially in order to provide practice in slip-catching

Electronics

• A base unit that a PDA plugs into, so that the user can recharge the batteries and/or communicate with another computer.
• A base unit that a cordless telephone or similar device plugs into for recharging.

Medical

• noun a metal frame put over a person in bed to keep the weight of the bedclothes off the body
• verb to carry a child with one arm under the thigh and the other under the upper back

Sports

• noun a frame placed beneath bedclothes covering a patient to keep him or her from touching a sensitive part of the body, e.g. after an injury or operation

Travel

• noun a type of basket with handles for holding a bottle of vintage red wine, so that the wine can be served without holding the bottle upright and the sediment is not disturbed

Wine

• a device used to hold a bottle of wine horizontal while it is being decanted

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Contexts for “cradle”

14 definitions in context
• General English
• Construction
• Cricket
• Electronics
• Medical
• Sports
• Travel
• Wine