cradle : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a game played with string looped over the fingers
  

WordNet

• game played, esp. by children, with a string looped on the fingers so, as to resemble small cradle. The string is transferred from the fingers of one to those of another, at each transfer with a change of form. See Cratch, Cratch cradle.

Webster 1913

• noun a dermatitis of the scalp that is common in infants
  

WordNet

• a sunken place in a road, caused by thawing, or by travel over a soft spot.

Webster 1913

• a broad scythe used in a cradle for cutting grain.

Webster 1913

• a representation of the figure of the cratch, made upon the fingers with a string; cat's cradle; called also scratch cradle.

Webster 1913

• . (Mining) See Cradle, n., 7.

Webster 1913

• . See Cratch cradle, under Cratch.

Webster 1913

• noun primitive elongated bilaterally symmetrical marine mollusk having a mantle covered with eight calcareous plates
  polyplacophore; coat-of-mail shell; chiton.
  

WordNet

• to put ribs across the back of a picture, to prevent the panels from warping.

Webster 1913