Definition of "cradled" [cradled]

• Simple past tense and past participle of cradle. (verb)

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• "The Captain cradled the baby girl throughout the ceremony, surrounded by his favorite male and female concubines."
• "Exquisite too is the Kohinoor Diamond of a dub cradled among rocks on the Black Sails ridge above the plunging depths of Red Dell on one side and Coppermines Valley on the other."
• "Certain it is they are rocked on the deep from their birth, "cradled" in the sea, sleeping on their backs in the water, clasping the young in their arms like a human being, tossing up seaweed in play by the hour like mischievous monkeys, or crawling out on some safe, sea-girt rocklet, where they shake the water from their fur and make their toilet, stretching and arranging and rearranging hair like a cat."