crib

Definitions

1. 1.A stall for oxen or other cattle. Where no oxen are, the crib is clean. Prov. xiv.
2. 2.3. A small inclosed bedstead or cot for a child.
3. 3.A box or bin, or similar wooden structure, for storing grain, salt, etc.; as, a crib for corn or oats.
4. 4.A hovel; a hut; a cottage. Why rather, Sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, . . . Than in the perfumed chambers of the great Shak.
5. 5.(Mining) A structure or frame of timber for a foundation, or for supporting a roof, or for lining a shaft.
6. 6.A structure of logs to be anchored with stones; -- used for docks, pier, dams, etc.
7. 7.A small raft of timber. [Canada]
8. 8.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.
9. 9.A miner's luncheon. [Cant] Raymond.
10. 10.(Card Playing) The discarded cards which the dealer can use in scoring points in cribbage.
11. 11.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.
12. 12.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.
13. 13.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.
14. 14.To make notes for dishonest use in recitation or examination. [College Cant]
15. 15.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 (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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• What is a stall for oxen or other cattle. Where no oxen are, the crib is clean. Prov. xiv called?
• What is 3. A small inclosed bedstead or cot for a child called?
• What is a box or bin, or similar wooden structure, for storing grain, salt, etc.; as, a crib for corn or oats called?
• What is a hovel; a hut; a cottage. Why rather, Sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, . . . Than in the perfumed chambers of the great Shak called?
• What is a structure or frame of timber for a foundation, or for supporting a roof, or for lining a shaft called?
• What is a structure of logs to be anchored with stones; -- used for docks, pier, dams, etc called?
• What is 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 called?
• What is the discarded cards which the dealer can use in scoring points in cribbage called?
• What is 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 called?
• What is 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 called?
• What is 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 called?
• What is to make notes for dishonest use in recitation or examination. [College Cant] called?
• What is to seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind; -- said of a horse called?