Cradle
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Cradle may refer to:
Mechanical devices
- Bassinet, a small bed, often on rockers, in which babies and small children sleep
- Ship cradle, supports a ship that is dry docked
- Cradle (grain), in agriculture is a device based upon a scythe to cleanly reap and harvest grain
- Cradle (mining), used to separate gold from other rocks
- Newton's cradle, a device that demonstrates conservation of momentum and energy via a series of swinging spheres
Arts and literature
- Cradle (Malay band), a Malay rock band from Singapore
- Cradle (US band), a band that Suzi Quatro played in before she became famous
- Cradle (novel), a 1988 novel by Arthur C. Clarke and Gentry Lee
- Cradle (album), an album by Acacia
- "Cradle" (Atomic Kitten song), 1999
- "Cradle" (The Joy Formidable song)
- The Cradle, a 2007 horror film starring Lukas Haas and Emily Hampshire
- Cradle (circus act) (also known as aerial cradle or casting cradle), a type of aerial circus act
- Cradling (art restoration), an art restoration technique to stabilise a painting on panel
- "Cradle", a song by Mudvayne from L.D. 50
- Cradle (video game), a video game set for 2016.
A metaphor for humanity's origins
- Cradle of Humankind, a World Heritage Site near Johannesburg in South Africa, where many early hominid remains were discovered
- Cradle of civilization, any of the various regions regarded as the earliest centers of civilization
- Cradle of Liberty (disambiguation)
Other
- Cradle (wrestling), a very basic move in amateur wrestling