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Grain-cra′dle.

A light, four-fingered frame attached to the snath of a grain-scythe so as to catch the cut grain and allow it to be laid evenly in a swath.

Our four-fingered grain-cradle, whose post is braced by rods, and whose swath has a single nib for the right hand, seems to have originated in France; Loudon (1844) speaks of it as an ordinary tool in Normandy.

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