Usually means: Holding gently and protectively; nurturing.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word cradling:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. cradling: Merriam-Webster
  2. cradling: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cradling: Collins English Dictionary
  4. cradling: Vocabulary.com
  5. Cradling, cradling: Wordnik
  6. cradling: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. cradling: Wiktionary
  8. cradling: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Cradling, cradling: Dictionary.com
  10. cradling: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Cradling (paintings): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Cradling: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. cradling: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. Cradling: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. cradling: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. cradling: FreeDictionary.org
  17. cradling: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cradling: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cradling: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cradling: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cradling: Idioms

(Note: See cradle as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (cradling)

noun:  The act by which one cradles a child etc.
noun:  The act of using a cradle (the tool).
noun:  (coopering) The cutting of a cask into two pieces lengthwise, to enable it to pass a narrow place, the two parts being afterwards united and rehooped.
noun:  (carpentry) The framework in arched or coved ceilings to which the laths are nailed.

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