cradler
English
Etymology
Noun
cradler (plural cradlers)
- An agricultural worker who uses a cradle (a kind of broad scythe).
- One who or that which cradles.
- 1962, Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office (page 1261)
- For use in a nursery for cradling a baby to sleep, a baby cradler comprising, in combination, a stand embodying a mobile base, uprights attached to and rising perpendicularly from the base and having axially aligned bearings, […]
- 2012, Albert C. Cafagna, Richard T. Peterson, Craig A. Staudenbaur, Philosophy, Children, and the Family (page 90)
- […] this practice offers infants the soothing sounds of the cradler's heartbeat […]
- 1962, Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office (page 1261)