CRIB

cribbage, crib

(noun) a card game (usually for two players) in which each player is dealt six cards and discards one or two

crib

(noun) the cards discarded by players at cribbage

crib, cot

(noun) baby bed with high sides made of slats

crib

(noun) a bin or granary for storing grains

pony, trot, crib

(noun) a literal translation used in studying a foreign language (often used illicitly)

crib

(verb) line with beams or planks; “crib a construction hole”

crib

(verb) take unauthorized (intellectual material)

crib

(verb) use a crib, as in an exam

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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The criminal sense may derive from the 'basket' sense, circa the mid 18th century, in that a poacher could conceal poachings in such a basket (see the 1772 Samuel Foote quotation). The cheating sense probably derives from the criminal sense.

Noun

crib (countable and uncountable, plural cribs)

(US) A baby’s bed with high, often slatted, often moveable sides, suitable for a child who has outgrown a cradle or bassinet.

(British) A bed for a child older than a baby.

(nautical) A small sleeping berth in a packet ship or other small vessel

A wicker basket; compare Moses basket.

A manger, a feeding trough for animals elevated off the earth or floor, especially one for fodder such as hay.

The baby Jesus and the manger in a creche or nativity scene, consisting of statues of Mary, Joseph and various other characters such as the magi.

A bin for drying or storing grain, as with a corn crib.

A small room or covered structure, especially one of rough construction, used for storage or penning animals.

A confined space, as with a cage or office-cubicle

(obsolete) A job, a position; (British), an appointment.

A hovel, a roughly constructed building best suited to the shelter of animals but used for human habitation.

(slang) One’s residence, or where one normally hangs out. A house or dwelling place.

A boxy structure traditionally built of heavy wooden timbers, to support an existing structure from below, as with a mineshaft or a building being raised off its foundation in preparation for being moved; see cribbing.

(usually, in the plural) A collection of quotes or references for use in speaking, for assembling a written document, or as an aid to a project of some sort; a crib sheet.

(obsolete) A minor theft, extortion or embezzlement, with or without criminal intent.

(cribbage) The card game cribbage.

(cribbage) The cards discarded by players and used by the dealer.

(cryptography) A known piece of information corresponding to a section of encrypted text, that is then used to work out the remaining sections.

(southern New Zealand) A small holiday home, often near a beach and of simple construction.

(Australia, New Zealand) A packed lunch taken to work.

(Canada) A small raft made of timber.

(UK, obsolete, thieves' cant) The stomach.

(slang) A cheat sheet or past test used by students; crib sheet.

Verb

crib (third-person singular simple present cribs, present participle cribbing, simple past and past participle cribbed)

(transitive) To place or confine in a crib.

To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.

(transitive) To collect one or more passages and/or references for use in a speech, written document or as an aid for some task; to create a crib sheet.

(transitive, informal) To plagiarize; to copy; to cheat.

(intransitive) To install timber supports, as with cribbing.

(transitive, obsolete) To steal or embezzle, to cheat out of.

(Indian English) To complain, to grumble

To crowd together, or to be confined, as if in a crib or in narrow accommodations.

(intransitive, of a horse) To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind.

Anagrams

• BRIC, CBIR

Source: Wiktionary

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Crib (krb), n. Etym: [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. (Mining)

Definition: 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 plagiaris [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. (Card Playing)

Definition: The discarded cards which the dealer can use in scoring points in cribbage.

Crib, v. t. [imp. & p.p. Cribbed (krbd); p.pr. & vb. n. Cribbing.]

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, v. i.

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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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