Cradling is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CRADLING in dictionary:

VERB:
• hold gently and protectively
• be the place of origin of
• place (a telephone receiver) in its cradle
NOUN:
• a wooden or iron framework within a ceiling
• infancy
• a place or process in which something originates or flourishes
• a framework on which a boat rests during construction or repairs.
• a framework on which a worker is suspended to work on a ceiling, ship, or the side of a high building.
• the part of a telephone on which the receiver rests when not in use.
• framework of iron or wood, esp as used in the construction of a ceiling
• The act of using a cradle.
• Cutting a cask into two pieces lengthwise, to enable it to pass a narrow place, the two parts being afterward united and rehooped.
• The framework in arched or coved ceilings to which the laths are nailed.
• a baby's bed or cot, typically one mounted on rockers
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to nurture during infancy
• a framework in a ceiling

Words related to CRADLING

cradle9 cradled11 cradles10 cradlings13

Words that contain CRADLING

cradlings13 encradling14

How to use CRADLING in a sentence

• The method of cradling is the same, the appliances required are simple and inexpensive, and the proportional yield of gold highly reassuring.
• When she turned in the doorway, the interviewer noticed that the hand jammed into an apron pocket was clutched into a possessive fist, cradling the precious twenty five cents.
• I was occupied until noon at the mill and later, in the field, watching the men cradling oats.
• The cradling boat and the patter upon the roof soon put us to sleep.
• Over wooded upland, and through lowland cradling the treacherous muskeg, spruce-shielded and moss-bedded, he followed the trail of old Shag and his Cow mate.
• She hummed, cradling in her heart impressions of the night so that later she might awaken them through the music of her violin.
• He looked at the trim little schooner cradling her sleeping crew.
• I been ploughing, hoeing, cradling grain, picking cotton all my life.
• On his side of the dead line Bud rocked his hard-muscled, big body back and forth, cradling Lovin Child asleep in his arms.
• To light lapping and cradling of waters the wood sings the simple lay, while strings discourse in quicker, higher phrase.
• The first home was made when a woman, cradling in her loving arms a baby, crooned a lullaby.
• Gradually the cradling swing, the quivering power of the airship, lulled his fevered spirit.
• The evening was warm, and Charley opened the door and sat down on the sill, leaning against the jamb of the door, and cradling his rifle across his knees.

Similar words containing CRADL without suffix ing

cradle9 cradled11 cradler10 cradles10 cradlers11 encradle11 cradlings13 encradled13 encradles12 cradlesong14 cradlewalk20 encradling14 cradlesongs15 cradlewalks21

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