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Crib

Crib (crib)
n.(kr?b)
Crib
[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.]

  1. A manger or rack; a feeding place for animals.

    The steer lion at one crib shall meet.
    Pope.

  2. A stall for oxen or other cattle.

    Where no oxen are, the crib is clean.
    Prov. xiv. 4.

  3. A small inclosed bedstead or cot for a child.
  4. A box or bin, or similar wooden structure, for storing grain, salt, etc.; as, a crib for corn or oats.
  5. A hovel; a hut; a cottage.

    Why rather, Sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, . . .
    Than in the perfumed chambers of the great?
    Shak.

  6. A structure or frame of timber for a foundation, or for supporting a roof, or for lining a shaft.
  7. A structure of logs to be anchored with stones; -- used for docks, pier, dams, etc.
  8. A small raft of timber.
    [Canada]
  9. A small theft; anything purloined; a plagiarism; hence, a translation or key, etc., to aid a student in preparing or reciting his lessons.
    [Colloq.]

    The Latin version technically called a crib.
    Ld. Lytton.

    Occasional perusal of the Pagan writers, assisted by a crib.
    Wilkie Collins.

  10. A miner's luncheon.
    [Cant] Raymond.
  11. The discarded cards which the dealer can use in scoring points in cribbage.

Crib

Crib (crib)
v. t.
Crib
  1. To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation] to cage; to cramp.

    If only the vital energy be not cribbed or cramped.
    I. Taylor.

    Now I am cabin'd, cribbed, confined.
    Shak.

  2. To pilfer or purloin; hence, to steal from an author; to appropriate; to plagiarize; as, to crib a line from Milton.
    [Colloq.]

    Child, being fond of toys, cribbed the necklace.
    Dickens.


Crib

Crib (crib)
v. i.
Crib
  1. To crowd together, or to be confined, as in a crib or in narrow accommodations.
    [R.]

    Who sought to make . . . bishops to crib in a Presbyterian trundle bed.
    Gauden.

  2. To make notes for dishonest use in recitation or examination.
    [College Cant]
  3. To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind; -- said of a horse.













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