A device that demonstrates conservation of momentum and energy via a series of swinging spheres. When a sphere at one end is lifted and released, the resulting force travels through the line and pushes the opposite sphere upward, repeating the process as it swings back down.

A purported torture device by which the suspended victim’s orifice was slowly impaled on and stretched by the pyramidal tip of the ‘seat’.

A chiton (kind of marine mollusc).

plural of sea cradle

present participle of cradle-snatch

simple past tense and past participle of cradle-snatch

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cradle-snatch

Alternative spelling of cradle robber

Alternative form of Newton's cradle

(uncountable) A children's game of forming string into various shapes around one's fingers. / (countable, idiomatic) Any complicated structure that appears to be without purpose.