Cradleful
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Cradleful is a noun meaning A number of babies that lies in a cradle.
Meaning
A number of babies that lies in a cradle.
More Meanings
- A quantity of mined earth that is washed at one time in a cradle.
- A quantity of something that is newly born or created.
Example Sentences
The yellow warbler may adorn your garden with its nest and place a cradleful of fuzzy nestlings at your elbow.
Not an easy object of affection, she had thought, not the sort of woman who would be content with a few rooms, an absentee mariner husband, and a cradleful of screaming babies.
It seems she churns the butter with one foot and rocks a cradleful of twins with the other; with her hands she knits socks for her husband; on her knee rests a book from which she is improving her mind.
... women, and its hourly increasing cribfuls and cradlefuls of babies ... far below them, unfolding, developing, growing under their guardianship like some phenomenal paper flower unfolding in a gigantic bowl of light.
Word Forms
- cradlefuls
- cradlesful
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include craddle, cradleside, cradling, cradlesong, cradle, cradler.
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