Yes, cradle is a Scrabble word!

Verb

1. Hold gently and carefully

2. Bring up from infancy

3. Hold or place in or as if in a cradle

4. Cut grain with a cradle scythe

5. Wash in a cradle

6. Run with the stick

Noun

1. A baby bed with sides and rockers

2. Where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence

3. Birth of a person

4. A trough that can be rocked back and forth; used by gold miners to shake auriferous earth in water in order to separate the gold