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Crib , n. [AS. crybb; akin to OS. kribbja, D. krib, kribbe, Dan. krybbe, G. krippe, and perh. to MHG. krebe basket, G, korb, and E. rip a sort of wicker basket.]1913 Webster
- A manger or rack; a feeding place for animals.1913 Webster
The steer lion at one crib shall meet.
Pope.1913 Webster - A stall for oxen or other cattle.1913 Webster
Where no oxen are, the crib is clean.
Prov. xiv. 4.1913 Webster - A small inclosed bedstead or cot for a child.1913 Webster
- A box or bin, or similar wooden structure, for storing grain, salt, etc.; as, a crib for corn or oats.1913 Webster
- A hovel; a hut; a cottage.1913 Webster
Why rather, Sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, . . .
Than in the perfumed chambers of the great?Shak.1913 Webster - (Mining) A structure or frame of timber for a foundation, or for supporting a roof, or for lining a shaft.1913 Webster
- A structure of logs to be anchored with stones; -- used for docks, pier, dams, etc.1913 Webster
- A small raft of timber. [Canada]1913 Webster
- A small theft; anything purloined; a plagiarism; hence, a translation or key, etc., to aid a student in preparing or reciting his lessons. [Colloq.]1913 Webster
The Latin version technically called a crib.
Ld. Lytton.1913 WebsterOccasional perusal of the Pagan writers, assisted by a crib.
Wilkie Collins.1913 Webster - A miner's luncheon. [Cant]Raymond.1913 Webster
- (Card Playing) The discarded cards which the dealer can use in scoring points in cribbage.1913 Webster
- A manger or rack; a feeding place for animals.
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Crib, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cribbed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Cribbing.]
- To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.1913 Webster
If only the vital energy be not cribbed or cramped.
I. Taylor.1913 WebsterNow I am cabin'd, cribbed, confined.
Shak.1913 Webster - To pilfer or purloin; hence, to steal from an author; to appropriate; to plagiarize; as, to crib a line from Milton. [Colloq.]1913 Webster
Child, being fond of toys, cribbed the necklace.
Dickens.1913 Webster
- To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.
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Crib, v. i.
- To crowd together, or to be confined, as in a crib or in narrow accommodations. [R.]1913 Webster
Who sought to make . . . bishops to crib in a Presbyterian trundle bed.
Gauden.1913 Webster - To make notes for dishonest use in recitation or examination. [College Cant]1913 Webster
- To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind; -- said of a horse.1913 Webster
- To crowd together, or to be confined, as in a crib or in narrow accommodations. [R.]