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Quotation dates: 1399-1400, 1497-1636
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Cradill, n. Also: cradil, kraddill, (kardil), -ell, cradle; craidill, -ell, craidle. [ME. cradel, -elle, -il(le, etc., OE. cradel, cradol. Cf. Credill.]
1. A cradle for a child. a1400 Legends of the Saints xlv. 224.
Scho … ves rokit sa … As barne that in the kardil ware 1506–7 Treasurer's Accounts III. 273.
For iij … elne scarlet to cover the litill cradill 1506–7 Ib.
For iiij elne … clath of gold to cover the gret cradil of stait 1540 Ib. VII. 320.
To the lady maistres for expensis debursit be hir for couering of my lord princis cradill a1568 Bannatyne MS 138 a/50.
I half … Ane cord, ane creill, and als ane cradill a1605 Montg. Flyt. 340.
Shoe that cares for thy cradill, cauld be her cast 1598 Treasurer's Accounts MS. 110 b.
Taffettie to be collet claith and covering of the cradill 1621 Wedderburn Compt Bk. 185.
The aikin lang sadill of the pres and the aikin cradel
b. Attrib. with birth, blanket, covering. 1569-73 Bann. Memor. 166.
Sho … [being] from hir cradle-birth brocht vp in commanding 1600 Treasurer's Accounts MS. 68.
Aucht schort blankettis and twa cradill blankettis 1600 Ib. 69.
Taffatie to be his cradill covering
2. A framework or support; a gun-carriage, a cradle for a ship, a suspended stage. 1497 Treasurer's Accounts I. 348.
Giffin to pynouris to bere the treis to be Mons new cradil 1497 Ib. 349. 1512 Ib. IV. 290.
To the said Schir Walter to pay for inbringing of the cradill of the gret schip 1512 Ib. 329. 1560 Edinb. Old Acc. II. 95.
Ane gret cabill tow to the wyndais that drew owpe the cradill 1628–9 Master of Works Accounts XXI. 4.
For … small tow to the craiddill [used in harling the wall]
3. A crate of glass. 1503 Treasurer's Accounts II. 273.
For iiij cradilles of glas to the glassin wricht in Halyrudhous 1507–8 Rentale Dunkeld. fol. 56.
Iohanni Mortymer in naulo quinque lie cradillis vitrij 1527 Treasurer's Accounts V. 326.
For a cradill of glas 1597 Halyb. p. cxvi.
For ilk four cradill glas … ij unce 1613 Brechin Testaments II. 275 b.
Ane cradell of glas with sum vispis of glas 1626 Ib. IV. 229 b.
Ane craiddell Frensche glas 1636 Thanes of Cawdor 281.
Ane kraddill of glasce
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