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Entry 16 senses · 3 variants Webster, 1913

Crib

/(krĭb)/ · IPA /kɹɪb/
01 n. A manger or rack; a feeding place for animals.
  1. 1.
    A manger or rack; a feeding place for animals.
    “The steer lion at one crib shall meet.” — Pope.
  2. 2.
    A stall for oxen or other cattle.
    “Where no oxen are, the crib is clean.” — Prov. xiv. 4.
  3. 3.
    A small inclosed bedstead or cot for a child.
  4. 4.
    A box or bin, or similar wooden structure, for storing grain, salt, etc.; as, a crib for corn or oats.
  5. 5.
    A hovel; a hut; a cottage.
    “Why rather, Sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, . . . Than in the perfumed chambers of the great?” — Shak.
  6. 6.
    A structure or frame of timber for a foundation, or for supporting a roof, or for lining a shaft.(Mining)
  7. 7.
    A structure of logs to be anchored with stones; -- used for docks, pier, dams, etc.
  8. 8.
    A small raft of timber.[Canada]
  9. 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.]
    “The Latin version technically called a crib.” — Ld. Lytton.
    “Occasional perusal of the Pagan writers, assisted by a crib.” — Wilkie Collins.
  10. 10.
    A miner's luncheon.[Cant]
  11. 11.
    The discarded cards which the dealer can use in scoring points in cribbage.(Card Playing)
02 v. t. To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.
imp. & p. p. Cribbed; p. pr. & vb. n. Cribbing
  1. 1.
    To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.
    “If only the vital energy be not cribbed or cramped.” — I. Taylor.
    “Now I am cabin'd, cribbed, confined.” — Shak.
  2. 2.
    To pilfer or purloin; hence, to steal from an author; to appropriate; to plagiarize; as, to crib a line from Milton.[Colloq.]
    “Child, being fond of toys, cribbed the necklace.” — Dickens.
03 v. i. To crowd together, or to be confined, as in a crib or in narrow accommodations.
  1. 1.
    To crowd together, or to be confined, as in a crib or in narrow accommodations.[R.]
    “Who sought to make . . . bishops to crib in a Presbyterian trundle bed.” — Gauden.
  2. 2.
    To make notes for dishonest use in recitation or examination.[College Cant]
  3. 3.
    To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind; -- said of a horse.