Cradle vs Beck - What's the difference?
cradle | beck |
A bed or cot for a baby, oscillating on rockers or swinging on pivots.
* Cowper
* Shakespeare
(figuratively) The place of origin, or in which anything is nurtured or protected in the earlier period of existence.
(figuratively) Infancy, or very early life.
* Shakespeare
* Clarendon
An implement consisting of a broad scythe for cutting grain, with a set of long fingers parallel to the scythe, designed to receive the grain, and to lay it evenly in a swath.
A tool used in mezzotint engraving, which, by a rocking motion, raises burrs on the surface of the plate, so preparing the ground.
A framework of timbers, or iron bars, moving upon ways or rollers, used to support, lift, or carry ships or other vessels, heavy guns, etc., as up an inclined plane, or across a strip of land, or in launching a ship.
A case for a broken or dislocated limb.
A frame to keep the bedclothes from contact with the sensitive parts of an injured person.
(mining) A machine on rockers, used in washing out auriferous earth.
(mining) A suspended scaffold used in shafts.
(carpentry) A ribbing for vaulted ceilings and arches intended to be covered with plaster.
(nautical) A basket or apparatus in which, when a line has been made fast to a wrecked ship from the shore, the people are brought off from the wreck.
A rest for the receiver of a telephone, or for certain computer hardware.
(contact juggling) A hand position allowing a contact ball to be held steadily on the back of the hand.
To contain in or as if in a cradle.
To rock (a baby to sleep).
To wrap protectively.
* cradling the injured man’s head in her arms
To lull or quieten, as if by rocking.
* D. A. Clark
To nurse or train in infancy.
* Glanvill
(lacrosse) To rock the lacrosse stick back and forth in order to keep the ball in the head by means of centrifugal force.
To cut and lay (grain) with a cradle.
To transport a vessel by means of a cradle.
* Knight
To put ribs across the back of (a picture), to prevent the panels from warping.
(Norfolk, Northern English dialect) A stream or small river.
* Drayton
A significant nod, or motion of the head or hand, especially as a call or command.
(archaic) To nod or motion with the head.
* Shakespeare
*{{quote-book, year=1896, author=Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr, title=Winter Evening Tales, chapter=, edition=
, passage="I'll buy so many acres of old Scotland and call them by the Lockerby's name; and I'll have nobles and great men come bowing and becking to David Lockerby as they do to Alexander Gordon. }}
*{{quote-book, year=1881, author=Various, title=The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III, chapter=, edition=
, passage=The becking waiter, that with wreathed smiles, wont to spread for Samuel and Bozzy their "supper of the gods," has long since pocketed his last sixpence; and vanished, sixpence and all, like a ghost at cock-crowing. }}
As nouns the difference between cradle and beck
is that cradle is a bed or cot for a baby, oscillating on rockers or swinging on pivots while beck is a stream or small river.As verbs the difference between cradle and beck
is that cradle is to contain in or as if in a cradle while beck is to nod or motion with the head.cradle
English
(wikipedia cradle)Noun
(en noun)- the cradle that received thee at thy birth
- No sooner was I crept out of my cradle / But I was made a king, at nine months old.
- a cradle of crime
- the cradle of liberty
- from the cradle to the grave
- from their cradles bred together
- a form of worship in which they had been educated from their cradles
- (Knight)
- The cradle was ill-made. One victim fell into the sea and was lost and the ensuing delay cost three more lives.
- He slammed the handset into the cradle .
Synonyms
* (machine on rockers used in washing out auriferous earth) rocker * (rest for receiver of a telephone) restDerived terms
* cat's cradle * cradle cap * cradleland * cradlesong * from the cradle to the grave * the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world * rob the cradleSee also
* cribVerb
(cradl)- It cradles their fears to sleep.
- He that hath been cradled in majesty will not leave the throne to play with beggars.
- In Lombardy boats are cradled and transported over the grade.
Anagrams
*beck
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . Cognate with low German bek or beckNoun
(en noun)- The brooks, the becks , the rills.
Synonyms
* brook * burn * creek * streamEtymology 2
A shortened form of (beckon), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- To be at the beck and call of someone.
Verb
(en verb)- When gold and silver becks me to come on.
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