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Definition of 'crib'English
(Canada) A small raft made of timber.
Synonyms
* (holiday home) bach (qualifier)
Derived terms
* crib mattress
* crib sheet
( rel-mid)
* crib death
* crib board
( rel-bottom)
Verb
( cribb)
To place or confine in a crib.
To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.
* I. Taylor
- if only the vital energy be not cribbed or cramped
* Shakespeare
- Now I am cabin'd, cribbed , confined.
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.
- I cribbed the recipe from the Food Network site, but made a few changes of my own.
To install timber supports, as with cribbing.
(obsolete) To steal or embezzle, to cheat out of.
- It was very easy, Briggs said, to make a galley-slave of a boy all the half-year, and then score him up idle; and to crib two dinners a-week out of his board, and then score him up greedy; but that wasn’t going to be submitted to, he believed, was it?'' — Charles Dickens, ''Dombey and Son , 1848,
Chapter 14 .
(Indian English) To complain, to grumble
* {{quote-book
|year=1957
|author=L.P.Hartley
|title=Hireling
|chapter=xi
|url=
|isbn=
|page=90
|passage=She calls on the neighbours, she's out half the time and doesn't answer the telephone, and when I start cribbing she just laughs.}}
To crowd together, or to be confined, as if in a crib or in narrow accommodations.
* Gauden
- Who sought to make bishops to crib in a Presbyterian trundle bed.
(of a horse) To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind.
Derived terms
* cribber
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