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
I used to work in the field and bind grain, keeping up with the cradler; but men doing no more, got twice as much pay; so with the German women.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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
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
That was the day of the scythe and the good mower, of the cradle and the good cradler, of the pitchfork and the good pitcher.
From My Boyhood by John Burroughs
