Crib
Crib (krib) , noun
[Anglo-Saxon crybb; akin to Old Saxon kribbja, Dutch krib, kribbe, Danish krybbe, German krippe, and perh. to Middle High German krebe basket, G, korb, and English rip a sort of wicker basket.]
1.
A manger or rack; a feeding place for animals.
The steer lion at one crib shall meet.
2.
A stall for oxen or other cattle.
Where no oxen are, the crib is clean.
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?
6.
(Mining) 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 plagiarism; hence, a translation or key, etc., to aid a student in preparing or reciting his lessons. [Colloquial]
The Latin version technically called a crib.
Occasional perusal of the Pagan writers, assisted by a crib.
10.
A miner's luncheon. [Cant] — Raymond
11.
(Card Playing) The discarded cards which the dealer can use in scoring points in cribbage.
Crib (kribd) , transitive verb
1.
To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.
If only the vital energy be not cribbed or cramped.
Now I am cabin'd, cribbed, confined.
2.
To pilfer or purloin; hence, to steal from an author; to appropriate; to plagiarize; as, to crib a line from Milton. [Colloquial]
Child, being fond of toys, cribbed the necklace.
Crib , intransitive verb
1.
To crowd together, or to be confined, as in a crib or in narrow accommodations. [Rare]
Who sought to make... bishops to crib in a Presbyterian trundle bed.
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.