Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling a cradle.

Etymologies

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cradle +‎ -like

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Examples

  • Attached was a cradlelike magazine with room for six bolts.

    SERPENT CLIVE CUSSLER 2000

  • Attached was a cradlelike magazine with room for six bolts.

    SERPENT CLIVE CUSSLER 2000

  • His body lay supported in a cradlelike arrangement of metal, almost entirely immersed in a red gelatinous substance with a clean, aromatic odor.

    The Time Traders Andre Norton 1958

  • Phoenix Rising is an inverted-pyramid structure suspended by small steel cables from a cradlelike device.

    dispatch.com: RSS 2009

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