board cradle

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a thin, rectangular board to which a moss bag is fastened and in which infants are carried. See picture at cradle-board.

Quotations

1954

The old folks, Indians and squaws, squatted along the walls amid black-eyed papooses propped up in board cradles.