a well known machine in which infants are rocked to sleep.

It denotes also that part of the stock of a cross-bow where the bullet is put.

in surgery, a case in which a broken leg is laid after being set.

among shipwrights, a frame placed under the bottom of a ship, in order to conduct her smoothly and steadily into the water when she is going to be launched; at which time it supports her weight while she slides down the descent or sloping passage called the way, which are for this purpose daubed with soap and tallow.