different between dandle vs cradle

English

Etymology

Compare Scots dandill (“to dander; go about idly; move uncertainly; trifle”), English dialectal dander (“to wander about; talk incoherently; rave”), Middle Dutch dantinnen (“to trifle”) (from French dandiner (“to swing; waddle”)), German dändeln, tändeln (“to trifle, dandle”), Middle Dutch and Provincial German danten (“to do foolish things; trifle”), German Tand (“trifle, prattle”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, General American) IPA^(key): /?dænd?l/, [?dænd??]

Verb

dandle (third-person singular simple present dandles, present participle dandling, simple past and past participle dandled)

1. (transitive) To move up and down on one's knee or in one's arms, in affectionate play, usually said of a child.
   • 1978, Bible, New International Version, Isaiah 66:12

     You will nurse and be carried on her arm and dandled on her knees.

2. (transitive) To treat with fondness or affection, as if a child; to pet.

   • [T]hey have put me in a silk night-gown and gaudy fool's cap, and make me now and then stand in the window with it. I am ashamed to be dandled thus, and cannot look in the glass without blushing to see myself turned into such a pretty little master.

   • 1807, Francis Jeffrey, "Forbe's Life of Dr. Beattie" in The Edinburgh Review April 1807

     The book, thus dandled into popularity by bishops and good ladies, contained many pieces of nursery eloquence.

3. (transitive, obsolete) To play with; to wheedle.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, A View of the present State of Ireland

     captaines, who notwithstanding that they are specially imployed to make peace thorough strong execution of warre, yet they doe so dandle their doings, and dallie in the service to them committed

Synonyms

• (to treat with fondness): see also Thesaurus:pamper or Thesaurus:fondle

Derived terms

• dandler

Translations

See also

• dander

Anagrams

• DeLand, landed

English

Etymology

From Middle English cradel, credel, from Old English cradol, from Proto-Germanic *kradulaz, from Proto-Germanic *kradô (“(wicker) basket”). Cognates with cart.

Pronunciation

• enPR: kr??d?l, IPA^(key): /?k?e?d?l/
• Rhymes: -e?d?l

Noun

cradle (plural cradles)

1. A bed or cot for a baby, oscillating on rockers or swinging on pivots.
   • 1782, William Cowper, Expostulation

     the cradle that received thee at thy birth
2. (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

3. (figuratively) Infancy, or very early life.

   from the cradle to the grave
4. 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.
5. A tool used in mezzotint engraving, which, by a rocking motion, raises burrs on the surface of the plate, so preparing the ground.
6. 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.
7. A case for a broken or dislocated limb.
8. A frame to keep the bedclothes from contact with the sensitive parts of an injured person.
9. (mining) A machine on rockers, used in washing out auriferous earth.
10. (mining) A suspended scaffold used in shafts.
11. (carpentry) A ribbing for vaulted ceilings and arches intended to be covered with plaster.

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12. (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.

13. A rest for the receiver of a telephone, or for certain computer hardware.

    He slammed the handset into the cradle.

14. (contact juggling) A hand position allowing a contact ball to be held steadily on the back of the hand.
15. A mechanical device for tilting and decanting a bottle of wine.

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• crib

Verb

cradle (third-person singular simple present cradles, present participle cradling, simple past and past participle cradled)

1. (transitive) To contain in or as if in a cradle.
2. (transitive) To rock (a baby to sleep).
3. (transitive) To wrap protectively, to hold gently and protectively.

4. To lull or quieten, as if by rocking.
5. To nurse or train in infancy.
   • 1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica

     He that hath been cradled in majesty will not leave the throne to play with beggars.

6. (lacrosse) To rock the lacrosse stick back and forth in order to keep the ball in the head by means of centrifugal force.
7. To cut and lay (grain) with a cradle.
8. To transport a vessel by means of a cradle.
   • {1847, {w|Edward Henry Knight}}, American Mechanical Dictionary

     In Lombardy […] boats are cradled and transported over the grade.

9. To put ribs across the back of (a picture), to prevent the panels from warping.

Translations

Anagrams

• Calder, cardel, carled, clear'd, credal, reclad