The ribbing for vaulted ceilings and arches intended to be
covered with plaster.

The basket or apparatus in which, when a line has been made
fast to a wrecked ship from the shore, the people are brought off from
the wreck.

A case for a broken or dislocated limb.

A suspended scaffold used in shafts.

A frame to keep the bedclothes from contact with the
person.

A tool used in mezzotint engraving, which, by a rocking
motion, raises burrs on the surface of the plate, so preparing the
ground.

Infancy, or very early life.

A bed or cot for a baby, oscillating on rockers or swinging
on pivots; hence, the place of origin, or in which anything is nurtured
or protected in the earlier period of existence; as, a cradle of crime;
the cradle of liberty.

An implement consisting of a broad scythe for cutting
grain, with a set of long fingers parallel to the scythe, designed to
receive the grain, and to lay it evenly in a swath.

A machine on rockers, used in washing out auriferous earth;
– also called a rocker.