Definitions For Cradle

noun

  • A baby bed with sides and rockers
  • A trough that can be rocked back and forth; used by gold miners to shake auriferous earth in water in order to separate the gold
  • Where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence
  • Birth of a person
  • A bed for a baby that is usually designed to rock back and forth when pushed gently
  • The place where something begins
  • Something that is used to hold or support something else

verb

  • Run with the stick
  • Hold gently and carefully
  • Wash in a cradle
  • Cut grain with a cradle scythe
  • Hold or place in or as if in a cradle
  • Bring up from infancy
  • To hold (something or someone) gently in your arms or hands

Is Cradle a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
9
Words with Friends
11

The word Cradle is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Cradle in a Sentence

  • She placed the phone back on its cradle.
  • A number of ships were resting in their cradles in the shipyard.
  • He cradled her face in his hands.
  • She was cradling the injured man's head in her arms.

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