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
cribbing
present participle of crib
cribbing (countable and uncountable, plural cribbings)
The members used to build a (structural) crib, usually of timbers or logs, but also of concrete, steel or even plastic; cribwork.
As a whole, the heavy structure built to support an existing structure from underneath, as with a mineshaft or when raising a building off its foundation, as for moving to another location,
• US Army Corps of Engineers site
The cribbing used to support anything from below or on a side, as with a retaining wall, or to prop up a piece of heavy machinery.
(ethology, horses) A self-injurious tendency of certain horses to swallow air while slobbering and biting onto objects in and about their enclosure; cribbing and windsucking are regarded as equine forms of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
An act of plagiarism.
Source: Wiktionary
Crib"bing (krb"bng), n.
1. The act of inclosing or confining in a crib or in close quarters.
2. Purloining; stealing; plagiarizing. [Colloq.]
3. (Mining)
Definition: A framework of timbers and plank backing for a shaft lining, to prevent caving, percolation of water, etc.
4. A vicious habit of a horse; crib-biting. The horse lays hold of the crib or manger with his teeth and draws air into the stomach with a grunting sound.
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
20 April 2025
(noun) food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing; usually consisting of or including greens
According to Guinness World Records, the largest iced coffee is 14,228.1 liters and was created by Caffé Bene (South Korea), in Yangju, South Korea, on 17 July 2014. They poured iced black Americano on the giant cup that measured 3.3 meters tall and 2.62 meters wide.
