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a baby bed with sides and rockers birth of a person; "he was taught from the cradle never to cry" run with the stick hold gently and carefully; "He cradles the child in his arms" wash in a cradle; "cradle gold" cut grain with a cradle scythe hold or place in or as if in a cradle; "He cradled the infant in his arms" bring up from infancy a trough on rockers used by gold miners to shake earth in water in order to separate the gold where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence; "the birthplace of civilization" |
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