cradleful

noun3

1. •
   A number of babies that lies in a cradle.

   • Not an easy object of affection, she had thought, not the sort of woman who would be content with a few rooms, an absentee mariner husband, and a cradleful of screaming babies. — 2015
2. •
   A quantity of something that is newly born or created.

   • The yellow warbler may adorn your garden with its nest and place a cradleful of fuzzy nestlings at your elbow. — 1943
3. •
   A quantity of mined earth that is washed at one time in a cradle.