cradle

     

A crale (also called a bassinet, crib and stock ) is a small bed, often on rockers, in which babies and small children sleep.

Trivia about cradle

  • The support for an object set horizontally, as for the receiver of a telephone
  • The support for a handset of a phone, or a baby's bed on rockers
  • Chaucer spells this word to end in D-E-L; it's where a child of "half yeer age" lies