The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Crib \Crib\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cribbed (kr[i^]bd); p. pr. &
   vb. n. Cribbing.]
   1. To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to
      cramp.
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            If only the vital energy be not cribbed or cramped.
                                                  --I. Taylor.
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            Now I am cabin'd, cribbed, confined.  --Shak.
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   2. To pilfer or purloin; hence, to steal from an author; to
      appropriate; to plagiarize; as, to crib a line from
      Milton. [Colloq.]
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            Child, being fond of toys, cribbed the necklace.
                                                  --Dickens.
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