cradleful

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A number of babies that lies in a cradle.
    — It seems she churns the butter with one foot and rocks a cradleful of twins with the other; with her hands she knits socks for her husband; on her knee rests a book from which she is improving her mind.
  2. A quantity of mined earth that is washed at one time in a cradle.
    — What, haven't you heard? it is your friend Jem! he has got a slice of luck, bought a hole of a stranger, saw the stuff glitter, so offered him thirty pounds he was green and snapped at it; and if Jem didn't wash four ounces out the first cradleful I'm a Dutchman.
  3. A quantity of something that is newly born or created.
    — ...so we shall justify the argument of Mr. Dooley, who said, in reviewing "The Jungle," that he could not see how it was any less a crime to cut off a young tomato in its prime, or to murder a whole cradleful of baby peas in the pod!

词形变化

cradlefuls plural cradlesful plural

词源

From cradle + -ful.
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