encradle

English

Etymology

Verb

encradle (third-person singular simple present encradles, present participle encradling, simple past and past participle encradled)

(transitive) To lay 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.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “encradle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

calender