cradle
noun
a small bed for an infant, usually on rockers.
cradler
-
a word derived from
cradle.
Example Sentences
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She is not a sentimentalist or a cradler of her pain.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2020
He was a good ploughman, a good mower and cradler, excellent with a team of oxen drawing rocks, and good at most general farm work, but not an adept at constructing anything.
From My Boyhood by John Burroughs
There is enough work to give constant employment to a cradler and a shoveller.
From Hittel on Gold Mines and Mining by John S. (John Shertzer) Hittell
A good cradler in the harvest field will earn from $1,50 to $2 per day.
From A New Guide for Emigrants to the West by John Mason Peck
A good cradler would cut about five acres a day, and an expert with a rake would follow and bind up what he cut.
From Country Life in Canada Fifty Years Ago Personal recollections and reminiscences of a sexagenarian by Canniff Haight
