creeper

A small low bed for an infant, often furnished with rockers.

1. The earliest period of life: had an interest in music almost from the cradle.

2. A place of origin; a birthplace: the cradle of civilization.

3. A framework of wood or metal used to support something, such as a ship undergoing construction or repair.

4. A framework used to protect an injured limb.

5. A frame projecting above a scythe, used to catch grain as it is cut so that it can be laid flat.

6. A scythe equipped with such a frame.

1. A framework of wood or metal used to support something, such as a ship undergoing construction or repair.

2. A framework used to protect an injured limb.

3. A frame projecting above a scythe, used to catch grain as it is cut so that it can be laid flat.

4. A scythe equipped with such a frame.

A low flat framework that rolls on casters, used by a mechanic working beneath an automobile. Also called creeper.

The part of a telephone that contains the connecting switch upon which the receiver and mouthpiece unit is supported.

1. A frame projecting above a scythe, used to catch grain as it is cut so that it can be laid flat.

2. A scythe equipped with such a frame.

A boxlike device furnished with rockers, used for washing gold-bearing dirt.

1. To place or retain in or as if in a cradle.

2. To care for or nurture in infancy.

3. To hold or support protectively: cradled the cat in his arms.

To reap (grain) with a cradle.

To place or support (a ship, for example) in a cradle.

To wash (gold-bearing dirt) in a cradle.