cradledadj.
1. Laid or reposing in a cradle.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > bed related to sleep or rest > [adjective] > in bed, lying down,or put to bed > in a cradle
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a1631 J. Donne Progresse of Soule xvii, in Poems (1633) 9 Her cradled child.
1794 R. B. Sheridan Duenna (new ed.) i. 10 Love, like a cradled infant, is lull'd by a sad melody.
1816 Ld. Byron Siege of Corinth xxxiii. 53 When in cradled rest they lay.
1871 C. B. Pearson Sarum Sequences vii. 21 The King of Heaven is cradled found Amid the beasts He made.
2. Cut down with the cradle-scythe.
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1847 Halleck Recorder in Wks. 216 Ripened like summer's cradled sheaf.
3. Provided with a cradle: cf. cradle-scythe n. at cradle n. Compounds 2.
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1885 Fortn. in Waggonette 101 My friend was to exhibit his skill with the cradled scythe.
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