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  • English Word Crib Definition A box or bin, or similar wooden structure, for storing grain, salt, etc.; as, a crib for corn or oats.
  • English Word Crib Definition A hovel; a hut; a cottage.
  • English Word Crib Definition A structure or frame of timber for a foundation, or for supporting a roof, or for lining a shaft.
  • English Word Crib Definition A structure of logs to be anchored with stones; -- used for docks, pier, dams, etc.
  • English Word Crib Definition A small raft of timber.
  • English Word Crib Definition A small theft; anything purloined;; a plagiaris/; hence, a translation or key, etc., to aid a student in preparing or reciting his lessons.
  • English Word Crib Definition A miner's luncheon.
  • English Word Crib Definition The discarded cards which the dealer can use in scoring points in cribbage.
  • English Word Crib Definition To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.
  • English Word Crib Definition To pilfer or purloin; hence, to steal from an author; to appropriate; to plagiarize; as, to crib a line from Milton.
  • English Word Crib Definition To crowd together, or to be confined, as in a crib or in narrow accommodations.
  • English Word Crib Definition To make notes for dishonest use in recitation or examination.
  • English Word Crib Definition To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind; -- said of a horse.
  • English Word Crib-biter Definition A horse that has the habit of cribbing.
  • English Word Crib-biting Definition Same as Cribbing, 4.
  • English Word Cribbage Definition A game of cards, played by two or four persons, in which there is a crib. (See Crib, 11.) It is characterized by a great variety of chances.
  • English Word Cribbed Definition of Crib
  • English Word Cribbing Definition of Crib
  • English Word Cribbing Definition The act of inclosing or confining in a crib or in close quarters.
  • English Word Cribbing Definition Purloining; stealing; plagiarizing.
  • English Word Cribbing Definition A framework of timbers and plank backing for a shaft lining, to prevent caving, percolation of water, etc.
  • English Word Cribbing Definition A vicious habit of a horse; crib-biting. The horse lays hold of the crib or manger with his teeth and draws air into the stomach with a grunting sound.
  • English Word Cribble Definition A coarse sieve or screen.
  • English Word Cribble Definition Coarse flour or meal.
  • English Word Cribble Definition To cause to pass through a sieve or riddle; to sift.
  • English Word Cribble Definition Coarse; as, cribble bread.
  • English Word Cribbled Definition of Cribble
  • English Word Cribbling Definition of Cribble
  • English Word Cribellum Definition A peculiar perforated organ of certain spiders (Ciniflonidae), used for spinning a special kind of silk.
  • English Word Criber Definition Alt. of Crib-biter