0 past simple and past participle of cradle
1 to hold something or someone gently, especially by supporting with the arms:
This industry must be cradled and cherished through the tax system like any other given industry on which national welfare directly depends.
But where people have been for centuries cradled in a more primitive culture the effect may be something quite different.
Here where we sit today parliamentary democracy had its genesis, cradled in the care and fostered by the faith of our forefathers.
They would do something more than let their parents down; they would let down the movement in which they were cradled.
It cradled the iron and steel industry; it cradled coal production; and it cradled great engineering work.
She cradled him in her arms until he died.
Parliament is the vessel in which the liberties of the people are cradled and protected.
Now here, where these great principles were cradled, we feel that they of which we were the proud pioneers are under some challenge here at home.
