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crib
[ krib ]
noun
- a child's bed with enclosed sides.
- a stall or pen for cattle.
- a rack or manger for fodder, as in a stable or barn.
- a bin for storing grain, salt, etc.
- Informal.
- a translation, list of correct answers, or other illicit aid used by students while reciting, taking exams, or the like; pony.
- a petty theft.
- a room, closet, etc., in a factory or the like, in which tools are kept and issued to workers.
- a shallow, separate section of a bathing area, reserved for small children.
- any confined space.
- Slang. a house, shop, etc., frequented by thieves or regarded by thieves as a likely place for burglarizing.
- Building Trades, Civil Engineering. any of various cellular frameworks of logs, squared timbers, or steel or concrete objects of similar form assembled in layers at right angles, often filled with earth and stones and used in the construction of foundations, dams, retaining walls, etc.
- a barrier projecting part of the way into a river and then upward, acting to reduce the flow of water and as a storage place for logs being floated downstream.
- a lining for a well or other shaft.
- Slang. one's home; pad.
- Cribbage. a set of cards made up by equal contributions from each player's hand, and belonging to the dealer.
- a cheap, ill-kept brothel.
- a wicker basket.
- British, Australian. lunch, especially a cold lunch carried from home to work and eaten by a laborer on the job; snack.
verb (used with object)
cribbed, cribbing.
- Informal. to pilfer or steal, especially to plagiarize (another's writings or ideas).
- to confine in or as if in a crib.
- to provide with a crib or cribs.
- to line with timber or planking.
verb (used without object)
cribbed, cribbing.
- Informal.
- to use a crib in examinations, homework, translating, etc.
- to steal; plagiarize.
- (of a horse) to practice cribbing.
crib
/ ɪ /
noun
- a child's bed with slatted wooden sides; cot
- a cattle stall or pen
- a fodder rack or manger
- a bin or granary for storing grain, etc
- a small crude cottage or room
- informal.a house or residence
- a weekend cottage: term is South Island usage only
- any small confined space
- informal.a brothel
- a wicker basket
- a representation of the manger in which the infant Jesus was laid at birth
- informal.a theft, esp of another's writing or thoughts
- informal.Also called (esp US)pony a translation of a foreign text or a list of answers used by students, often illicitly, as an aid in lessons, examinations, etc
- short for cribbage
- cribbage the discard pile
- Also calledcribwork a framework of heavy timbers laid in layers at right angles to one another, used in the construction of foundations, mines, etc
- a storage area for floating logs contained by booms
- a packed lunch taken to work
verb
- tr to put or enclose in or as if in a crib; furnish with a crib
- informal.tr to steal (another's writings or thoughts)
- informal.intr to copy either from a crib or from someone else during a lesson or examination
- tr to line (a construction hole) with timber beams, logs, or planks
- informal.intr to grumble
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Derived Forms
- ˈ, noun
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Other 51Թ Forms
- ܲ· verb (used with object) uncribbed uncribbing
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51Թ History and Origins
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of crib1
Old English cribb; related to Old Saxon kribbia, Old High German krippa; compare Middle High German ŧ basket
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"It may be that staff didn't attach a card or tag immediately, or that it simply fell off and was put back on the wrong baby or on the wrong crib."
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A few floors below, Gemma dons the outfit she wore the last time she saw her husband and walks into the room, which is all white and empty except for a crib.
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I’ve done the same a hundred times, cribbing from emails to compose essays, from text messages to finish poems.
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When Meyers’ children were young, they napped in a crib in the shop as she zipped around, tidying up and taking inventory.
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Their son was nearly 2 years old and had lately “started scaling the walls,” so Sunday was spent converting his crib into “a big-boy bed.”
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