Definition of Crib

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Definition of Crib

Crib

A manger or rack; a feeding place for animals.

A stall for oxen or other cattle.

A small inclosed bedstead or cot for a child.

A box or bin, or similar wooden structure, for storing grain, salt, etc.; as, a crib for corn or oats.

A hovel; a hut; a cottage.

A structure or frame of timber for a foundation, or for supporting a roof, or for lining a shaft.

A structure of logs to be anchored with stones; -- used for docks, pier, dams, etc.

A small raft of timber.

A small theft; anything purloined;; a plagiaris/; hence, a translation or key, etc., to aid a student in preparing or reciting his lessons.

A miner's luncheon.

The discarded cards which the dealer can use in scoring points in cribbage.

To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.

To pilfer or purloin; hence, to steal from an author; to appropriate; to plagiarize; as, to crib a line from Milton.

To crowd together, or to be confined, as in a crib or in narrow accommodations.

To make notes for dishonest use in recitation or examination.

To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind; -- said of a horse.

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Crib Quotations

I don't think my parents liked me. They put a live teddy bear in my crib.
Woody Allen

The Clinton administration hated us, and it was a terrible struggle with them. I think that they felt if they didn't play, they could strangle us in our crib.
Brit Hume

The story about me, apocryphal or not, is that I could sing before I spoke. My parents went into bedroom one day and there I was standing in the crib singing God Bless America.
Linda Lavin

Crib Translations

crib in Dutch is afkijken, spieken

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