单词 | cradler |
释义 | cradlern. a. One who or that which cradles (an infant, etc.). ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1766 |
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