Lexicographical Neighbors of Cradlers
Literary usage of Cradlers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Writings of George Washington by George Washington (1889)
"Dr. Lee & all the rest went away & I rid to the cradlers (cutting my wheat ...
4 acres in the other this day by 10 and sometimes n cradlers which were all ..."
2. Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts by Colonial Society of Massachusetts (1915)
"To encrease the number of cradlers at each, to such a number only, as will give
two rakers to each, and leave a sufficiency besides to gather and put the ..."
3. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1855)
"Dinner over, the cradlers are fain to lie down beneath the trees in the house-yard
... Ere the cradlers have cut their way across the field twice or thrice, ..."
4. Otzinachson: Or, a History of the West Branch Valley of the Susquehanna by John Franklin Meginness (1857)
"The Corporal and three men, with the cradlers, proposed to make a stand, ...
The cradlers being acquainted with the country, took the nearest way to Wallis' ..."
5. A History of Indiana by Logan Esarey (1915)
"The cradlers vied with each other in laying a straight, even swath and in not
leaving a stalk ... Then there was racing across the fields by the cradlers. ..."
6. History of Indiana from Its Exploration to 1922 by Logan Esarey, William F. Cronin (1918)
"The cradlers vied with each other in laying a straight, even swath and in not
leaving a stalk ... Then there was racing across the fields by the cradlers. ..."
7. The American Wheat Culturist: A Practical Treatise on the Culture of Wheat by Sereno Edwards Todd (1868)
"cradlers and rakers and binders were required to do their work in a neat and ...
But, at the present day, good cradlers and neat and skilful rakers and ..."
8. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1855)
"Dinner over, the cradlers are fain to lie down beneath the trees in the house-yard
... Ere the cradlers have cut their way across the field twice or thrice, ..."
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