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Crib vs Cradle - What's the difference?

crib | cradle |

In nautical terms the difference between crib and cradle

is that crib is a small sleeping berth in a packet ship or other small vessel while cradle is 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.

In transitive terms the difference between crib and cradle

is that crib is to collect one or more passages and/or references for use in a speech, written document or as an aid for some task; to create a crib sheet while cradle is to wrap protectively.

crib

English

  • (Canada) A small raft made of timber.

    • Synonyms

    * (holiday home) bach (qualifier)

    Derived terms

    * crib mattress * crib sheet * crib death * crib board

    Verb

    (cribb)
  • To place or confine in a crib.
  • To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.
  • * I. Taylor
    • if only the vital energy be not cribbed or cramped
  • * Shakespeare
    • Now I am cabin'd, cribbed , confined.
  • To collect one or more passages and/or references for use in a speech, written document or as an aid for some task; to create a crib sheet.
    • I cribbed the recipe from the Food Network site, but made a few changes of my own.
  • To install timber supports, as with cribbing.
  • (obsolete) To steal or embezzle, to cheat out of.
    • It was very easy, Briggs said, to make a galley-slave of a boy all the half-year, and then score him up idle; and to crib two dinners a-week out of his board, and then score him up greedy; but that wasn’t going to be submitted to, he believed, was it?'' — Charles Dickens, ''Dombey and Son , 1848, Chapter 14.
  • (Indian English) To complain, to grumble
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1957 , author=L.P.Hartley , title=Hireling , chapter=xi , url= , isbn= , page=90 , passage=She calls on the neighbours, she's out half the time and doesn't answer the telephone, and when I start cribbing she just laughs.}}
  • To crowd together, or to be confined, as if in a crib or in narrow accommodations.
  • * Gauden
    • Who sought to make bishops to crib in a Presbyterian trundle bed.
  • (of a horse) To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind.

    • Derived terms

    * cribber

    Anagrams

    * *

    cradle

    English

    (wikipedia cradle)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A bed or cot for a baby, oscillating on rockers or swinging on pivots.
  • * Cowper
    • the cradle that received thee at thy birth
  • * Shakespeare
    • No sooner was I crept out of my cradle / But I was made a king, at nine months old.
  • (figuratively) The place of origin, or in which anything is nurtured or protected in the earlier period of existence.
    • a cradle of crime
    the cradle of liberty
  • (figuratively) Infancy, or very early life.
    • from the cradle to the grave
  • * Shakespeare
    • from their cradles bred together
  • * Clarendon
    • a form of worship in which they had been educated from their cradles
  • 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.
    • (Knight)
  • (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.
    • The cradle was ill-made. One victim fell into the sea and was lost and the ensuing delay cost three more lives.
  • A rest for the receiver of a telephone, or for certain computer hardware.
    • He slammed the handset into the cradle .
  • (contact juggling) A hand position allowing a contact ball to be held steadily on the back of the hand.

    • Synonyms

    * (machine on rockers used in washing out auriferous earth) rocker * (rest for receiver of a telephone) rest

    Derived 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 cradle

    See also

    * crib

    Verb

    (cradl)
  • 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
    • It cradles their fears to sleep.
  • To nurse or train in infancy.
  • * Glanvill
    • He that hath been cradled in majesty will not leave the throne to play with beggars.
  • (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
    • In Lombardy boats are cradled and transported over the grade.
  • To put ribs across the back of (a picture), to prevent the panels from warping.

    • Anagrams

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