Sentence:  What, haven't you heard? it is your friend Jem! he has got a slice of luck, bought a hole of a stranger, saw the stuff glitter, so offered him thirty pounds he was green and snapped at it; and if Jem didn't wash four ounces out the first <WSD>cradleful</WSD> I'm a Dutchman. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A quantity of mined earth that is washed at one time in a cradle.