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cribbing

[ krib-ing ]

noun

  1. Veterinary Medicine. Also called -·Բ [krib, -bahy-ting],. an injurious habit in which a horse bites its manger and as a result swallows air.
  2. Mining.
    1. a timber lining, closely spaced, as in a shaft or raise.
    2. pieces of timber for lining a shaft, raise, etc.
  3. Building Trades, Civil Engineering. a system of cribs, as for retaining earth or for a building or the like being moved or having its foundations rebuilt.


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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of cribbing1

First recorded in 1635–45; crib + -ing 1
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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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Thomas Weber, an expert on German history, pointed out that in modern Germany one far-right party has been cribbing wholesale from parts of the Nazi party manifesto.

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Firefighters secured the truck with “a grip hoist, grade 100 chain, and 6-inch vehicle strap cribbing, straps to keep the massively heavy vehicle from rolling any further forward,” fire officials posted on Facebook.

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In addition to grading the terrain to make the slopes gentler, he added powerful drainage systems and timber-and-concrete cribbing to keep structures in place.

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The discipline already had a “massive plagiarism problem” with students borrowing computer code from friends or cribbing it from the internet, said MacKellar.

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