crib

Noun · Verb
Synonyms: cotponytrotcribbage

WordNet 3.0

Noun (5)

  1. baby bed with high sides made of slatsSynonyms: cot
  2. a literal translation used in studying a foreign language (often used illicitly)Synonyms: ponytrot
  3. a bin or granary for storing grains
  4. the cards discarded by players at cribbage
  5. a card game (usually for two players) in which each player is dealt six cards and discards one or twoSynonyms: cribbage

Verb (3)

  1. use a crib, as in an exam
  2. take unauthorized (intellectual material)
  3. line with beams or planks“crib a construction hole”
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Crib \Crib\ (kr[i^]b), n. [AS. crybb; akin to OS. kribbja, D. krib, kribbe, Dan. krybbe, G. krippe, and perh. to MHG. krebe basket, G, korb, and E. rip a sort of wicker basket.] [1913 Webster]

1.A manger or rack; a feeding place for animals. [1913 Webster]

The steer lion at one crib shall meet.— Pope.[1913 Webster]

2.A stall for oxen or other cattle. [1913 Webster]

Where no oxen are, the crib is clean.— Prov. xiv. 4.[1913 Webster]

3.A small inclosed bedstead or cot for a child. [1913 Webster]

4.A box or bin, or similar wooden structure, for storing grain, salt, etc.; as, a crib for corn or oats. [1913 Webster]

5.A hovel; a hut; a cottage. [1913 Webster]

Why rather, Sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, . . . Than in the perfumed chambers of the great?— Shak.[1913 Webster]

6.(Mining) A structure or frame of timber for a foundation, or for supporting a roof, or for lining a shaft. [1913 Webster]

7.A structure of logs to be anchored with stones; -- used for docks, pier, dams, etc. [1913 Webster]

8.A small raft of timber. [Canada] [1913 Webster]

9.A small theft; anything purloined; a plagiarism; hence, a translation or key, etc., to aid a student in preparing or reciting his lessons. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]

The Latin version technically called a crib.— Ld. Lytton.[1913 Webster]
Occasional perusal of the Pagan writers, assisted by a crib.— Wilkie Collins.[1913 Webster]

10.A miner's luncheon. [Cant] --Raymond. [1913 Webster]

11.(Card Playing) The discarded cards which the dealer can use in scoring points in cribbage. [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

If only the vital energy be not cribbed or cramped.— I. Taylor.[1913 Webster]
Now I am cabin'd, cribbed, confined.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

2.To pilfer or purloin; hence, to steal from an author; to appropriate; to plagiarize; as, to crib a line from Milton. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]

Child, being fond of toys, cribbed the necklace.— Dickens.[1913 Webster]
Crib \Crib\, v. i.

1.To crowd together, or to be confined, as in a crib or in narrow accommodations. [R.] [1913 Webster]

Who sought to make . . . bishops to crib in a Presbyterian trundle bed.— Gauden.[1913 Webster]

2.To make notes for dishonest use in recitation or examination. [College Cant] [1913 Webster]

3.To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind; -- said of a horse. [1913 Webster]

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