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.
A frame to keep the bedclothes from contact with the sensitive parts of an injured person.
Infancy, or very early life.
A machine on rockers, used in washing out auriferous earth.
A bed or cot for a baby, oscillating on rockers or swinging on pivots.
A case for a broken or dislocated limb.
A hand position allowing a contact ball to be held steadily on the back of the hand.
The place of origin, or in which anything is nurtured or protected in the earlier period of existence.
A ribbing for vaulted ceilings and arches intended to be covered with plaster.
A tool used in mezzotint engraving, which, by a rocking motion, raises burrs on the surface of the plate, so preparing the ground.
A rest for the receiver of a telephone, or for certain computer hardware.
A mechanical device for tilting and decanting a bottle of wine.
A suspended scaffold used in shafts.
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.
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.
To wrap protectively, to hold gently and protectively.
To lull or quieten, as if by rocking.
To transport a vessel by means of a cradle.
To rock (a baby to sleep).
To contain in or as if in a cradle.
To nurse or train in infancy.
To rock the lacrosse stick back and forth in order to keep the ball in the head by means of centrifugal force.
To put ribs across the back of (a picture), to prevent the panels from warping.
To cut and lay (grain) with a cradle.
A piece of basketwork for protecting archers, or, filled with gravel or sand, for forming and protecting embankments, etc.
A large basket or bag fastened, usually in pairs, to the back of a bicycle or pack animal, or carried in pairs over the shoulders.
One of a pair of hoops used to expand the volume of a woman's skirt to either side.
A breadbasket.
A decorative basket for the display of flowers or fruits.