cradle Définition - Anglais Dictionnaire | cradle Explications et Prononciations

(figuratively) The place of origin, or in which anything is nurtured or protected in the earlier period of existence.

(figuratively) Infancy, or very early life.

(mining) A machine on rockers, used in washing out auriferous earth.

(carpentry) A ribbing for vaulted ceilings and arches intended to be covered with plaster.

(nautical) A 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.

The cradle was ill-made. One victim fell into the sea and was lost and the ensuing delay cost three more lives.

(contact juggling) A hand position allowing a contact ball to be held steadily on the back of the hand.

VT To rock (a baby to sleep).

To nurse or train in infancy.

To cut and lay (grain) with a cradle.

To transport a vessel by means of a cradle.

To put ribs across the back of (a picture), to prevent the panels from warping.

Plus d'exemples

Utilisé au milieu de la phrase
- Logan stood at the counter, cradling shards of blue glass in his hands and weeping broken-heartedly over them as he tried to glue them back together.
Utilisé dans la fin de la phrase
- Competitions are also being organized by the Museum in games like congkak, gasing (top-spinning), capteh, five stones and cat’s cradle.

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