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单词 cradler
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cradlern.

/ˈkreɪdlə/
Forms: Also 1800s dialect craddler.
Etymology: < cradle v. + -er suffix1.
a. One who or that which cradles (an infant, etc.).
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1844 Ld. Houghton Dream in Gondola in Mem. Many Scenes 98 Cradler of placid pleasures..Dear boat!
b. One who reaps with a cradle-scythe.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > cutting, reaping, or mowing > reaper or mower
reapmanOE
reaperOE
mower1225
shearer1318
puller1332
winner1352
repstera1450
harvestman1552
scytheman1577
harvester1589
sickler1638
messor1656
cradler1766
grass mower1779
thraver1813
reapa1825
bagger1844
cradle-man1889
1766 G. Washington Diary (1925) I. 227 Let into it with my whole force and two cradlers hired.
1766 G. Washington Diaries I. 276 I rid to the Cradlers (cutting my Wheat at the Mill).
1827 J. F. Cooper Prairie xi Show me..a cradler that knows better how to lead a gang of hands through a field of wheat.
1835 Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 2 149 Craddlers generally mow round the field when the crop admits of doing so.
1856 F. L. Olmsted Journey Slave States 204 A gang of fair cradlers and binders.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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