encradle
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]encradle (third-person singular simple present encradles, present participle encradling, simple past and past participle encradled)
- (transitive) To lay in a cradle, or as in a cradle.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, A Hymne of Heavenly Love:
- Begin from first where He encradled was, / In simple cratch, wrapt in a wad of hay.
References
[edit]- “encradle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.