encradle

English

Etymology

en- + cradle

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To lay in a cradle.
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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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