cradle clothes

pl. The bed-clothes belonging to a cradle. "O could it be prov'd That some night-tripping fairy had exchang'd, In cradle-clotnes, our children, where they lay." Shakesp.: Henry VI ., Pt . I., 1. 1. cradle-hills, s. pl . Small hillocks formed by fallen trunks of trees. cradle-scythe, s. Agric.: A broad scythe to be fitted in a grain cradle, as distinguished from a gra or mowing scythe.