cradling
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]cradling
- present participle and gerund of cradle
- The woman was cradling the baby in the crook of her arm as she fed it.
Noun
[edit]cradling (plural cradlings)
- The act by which one cradles a child etc.
- 1967, Stuart A. Altmann, Social communication among primates:
- About four thousand cradlings were observed among five mother-infant pairs during the first 15 weeks of each infant's life.
- The act of using a cradle (the tool).
- (coopering) The cutting of a cask into two pieces lengthwise, to enable it to pass a narrow place, the two parts being afterwards united and rehooped.
- (carpentry) The framework in arched or coved ceilings to which the laths are nailed.
- 1853, Thomas Tredgold, Elementary Principles of Carpentry:
- the ceiling of the circular part is deeply panelled, the main ribs forming the core for the cradling
References
[edit]- “cradling”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.