cradler
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
cradler (plural cradlers)
- An agricultural worker who uses a cradle (a kind of broad scythe).
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
cradler (plural cradlers)
- 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 […]