cradler

Diddled he daddle a drop of the cradler on delight mebold laddy was stetched?

Finnegans Wake 2006

He was a good ploughman, a good mower and cradler, excellent with a team of oxen drawing rocks, and good at most general farm work, but not an adept at constructing anything.

My Boyhood Burroughs, John, 1837-1921 1922

That was the day of the scythe and the good mower, of the cradle and the good cradler, of the pitchfork and the good pitcher.

My Boyhood Burroughs, John, 1837-1921 1922

A good cradler would cut about five acres a day, and an expert with a rake would follow and bind up what he cut.

Life in Canada Fifty Years Ago Haight, Canniff, 1825-1901 1885

He was a good ploughman, a good mower and cradler, excellent with a team of oxen drawing rocks, and good at most general farm work, but not an adept at constructing anything.

My Boyhood John Burroughs 1879

That was the day of the scythe and the good mower, of the cradle and the good cradler, of the pitchfork and the good pitcher.

My Boyhood John Burroughs 1879

A good cradler would cut about five acres a day, and an expert with a rake would follow and bind up what he cut.

Country Life in Canada Fifty Years Ago Personal recollections and reminiscences of a sexagenarian Canniff Haight 1863

I used to work in the field and bind grain, keeping up with the cradler; but men doing no more, got twice as much pay; so with the German women.

History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II Matilda Joslyn Gage 1862

To save the seed properly requires the skill of a good cradler, who cuts the tops and ties them in bundles to dry in the field for eight or ten days.

Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds 1858

A good cradler in the harvest field will earn from $1,50 to $2 per day.

A New Guide for Emigrants to the West John Mason Peck 1823