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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Cradill, n. Also: cradil (kardil), -ell, cradle; craidill, -ell, craidle. [ME. cradel, -elle, -il(le, etc., OE. cradel, cradol. Cf. Credill.]

1. A cradle for a child. a1400 Leg. S. xlv. 224.
Scho … ves rokit sa … As barne that in the kardil ware 1506–7 Treas. Acc. III. 273.
For iij … elne scarlet to cover the litill cradill 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 Bann. 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 Treas. Acc. 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 Treas. Acc. MS. 68.
Aucht schort blankettis and twa cradill blankettis 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 Treas. Acc. I. 348.
Giffin to pynouris to bere the treis to be Mons new cradil Ib. 349. 1512 Ib. IV. 290.
To the said Schir Walter to pay for inbringing of the cradill of the gret schip Ib. 329. 1560 Edinb. Old Acc. II. 95.
Ane gret cabill tow to the wyndais that drew owpe the cradill 1628–9 M. Works Acc. XXI. 4.
For … small tow to the craiddill [used in harling the wall]

3. A crate of glass. 1503 Treas. Acc. 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 Treas. Acc. V. 326.
For a cradill of glas 1597 Halyb. p. cxvi.
For ilk four cradill glas … ij unce 1613 Brechin Test. II. 275 b.
Ane cradell of glas with sum vispis of glas 1626 Ib. IV. 229 b.
Ane craiddell Frensche glas