a. [f. CRADLE v. or sb. + -ED.] 1. Laid or reposing in a cradle.

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a. 1631.  Donne, Progr. Soul (R.). Her cradled child.

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1775.  Sheridan, Duenna, I. i. Love, like a cradled infant, is lulled by a sad melody.

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1816.  Byron, Siege Cor., xxxiii. Where in cradled rest they lay.

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1871.  C. B. Pearson, Sarum Sequences, vii. 21.

        The King of Heaven is cradled found
  Amid the beasts He made.

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  2.  Cut down with the cradle-scythe.

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1847.  Halleck, Recorder, Wks. 216. Ripened like summer’s cradled sheaf.

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  3.  Provided with a cradle: cf. Cradle-scythe.

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1885.  Fortn. in Waggonette, 101. My friend was to exhibit his skill with the cradled scythe.

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