GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English

Found 3 definitions

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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.]
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   A manger or rack; a feeding place for animals.
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   The steer lion at one crib shall meet.
   Pope.
   
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   A stall for oxen or other cattle.
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   Where no oxen are, the crib is clean.
   Prov. xiv. 4.
   
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   A small inclosed bedstead or cot for a child.
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   A box or bin, or similar wooden structure, for storing grain, salt, etc.; as, a crib for corn or oats.
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   A hovel; a hut; a cottage.
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   Why rather, Sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, . . .
   Than in the perfumed chambers of the great?
   Shak.
   
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   (Mining) A structure or frame of timber for a foundation, or for supporting a roof, or for lining a shaft.
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   A structure of logs to be anchored with stones; -- used for docks, pier, dams, etc.
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   A small raft of timber. [Canada]
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   A small theft; anything purloined; a plagiarism; hence, a translation or key, etc., to aid a student in preparing or reciting his lessons. [Colloq.]
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   The Latin version technically called a crib.
   Ld. Lytton.
   
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   Occasional perusal of the Pagan writers, assisted by a crib.
   Wilkie Collins.
   
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   A miner's luncheon. [Cant]
   Raymond.
   
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   (Card Playing) The discarded cards which the dealer can use in scoring points in cribbage.
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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.
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   If only the vital energy be not cribbed or cramped.
   I. Taylor.
   
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   Now I am cabin'd, cribbed, confined.
   Shak.
   
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   To pilfer or purloin; hence, to steal from an author; to appropriate; to plagiarize; as, to crib a line from Milton. [Colloq.]
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   Child, being fond of toys, cribbed the necklace.
   Dickens.
   
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   Crib, v. i.
   To crowd together, or to be confined, as in a crib or in narrow accommodations. [R.]
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   Who sought to make . . . bishops to crib in a Presbyterian trundle bed.
   Gauden.
   
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   To make notes for dishonest use in recitation or examination. [College Cant]
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   To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind; -- said of a horse.
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