cradlesome

comparative more cradlesome · superlative most cradlesome

1. Characterised or marked by cradling.

   No one, of course, has seen her, and Ned and Beetie are about to experience the hammocking, cradlesome shock that is the beginning of despair.

   1956, The Marble Orchard

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   But I had been pushed across the boundary by I didn't know what hands, whether streaked or cradlesome or hooflike, and I could not turn around.

   1947, Crow Field, (Please provide the book title or journal name)

   And Geneva-Honey Crowningburg — she of the cradlesome escutcheon, the electric wool — she looms in a paper-shaded brokeneye and waves "bye- bye" (which is dumb since her man is plainly coming home, not going away).

   1975, North Carolina Quarterly - Volumes 27-28