cribbed

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

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]