Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
cradle , 4 .
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Examples
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Yeah you better say what you can now, no free speech in jail you cradle-rocker.
Thoughts on Iginla 2004
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Then the Queen was very angry, and gave the nurse, and the cradle-rocker, and the nursery-maid such a scolding that they shook in their shoes.
The Red Fairy Book 2003
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And then she began to cry, and her nurse, and the nurse's daughter, and the cradle-rocker, and the nursery-maid, who all loved her dearly, cried too for company, so that nothing could be heard but sobs and sighs.
Red Fairy Book 1890
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Then the Queen was very angry, and gave the nurse, and the cradle-rocker, and the nursery - maid such a scolding that they shook in their shoes.
Red Fairy Book 1890
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The chief cradle-rocker, who dreaded being taxed with negligence, took
The Fairy Book The Best Popular Stories Selected and Rendered Anew Dinah Maria Mulock Craik 1856
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And then she began to cry, and her nurse, and the nurse’s daughter, and the cradle-rocker, and the nursery-maid, who all loved her dearly, cried too for company, so that nothing could be heard but sobs and sighs.
The Red Fairy Book 2003
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"It's quite a spell sens you wos here," said the Widow Hiler, returning her foot to the cradle-rocker; "not sens yer was ordained.
By Shore and Sedge Bret Harte 1869
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"But she will not come! and they dismiss the others -- Nona and Decima, the nurses; the three Nixii, who are to deliver her; the two wet-nurses, Educa and Potina; and Carna, the cradle-rocker, whose bunch of hawthorns drives away bad dreams from the infant.
Tentation de saint Antoine. English Gustave Flaubert 1850
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