cribn.[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.]()1. A manger or rack; a feeding place for animals.()The steer lion at one crib shall meet. (Pope.)2. A stall for oxen or other cattle.()Where no oxen are, the crib is clean. (Prov. xiv. 4.)3. A small inclosed bedstead or cot for a child.()4. A box or bin, or similar wooden structure, for storing grain, salt, etc.; as, a crib for corn or oats.()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. (Mining) A structure or frame of timber for a foundation, or for supporting a roof, or for lining a shaft.()7. A structure of logs to be anchored with stones; -- used for docks, pier, dams, etc.()8. A small raft of timber.()9. A small theft; anything purloined; a plagiarism; hence, a translation or key, etc., to aid a student in preparing or reciting his lessons.()The Latin version technically called a crib. (Ld. Lytton.)Occasional perusal of the Pagan writers, assisted by a crib. (Wilkie Collins.)10. A miner's luncheon.(Raymond.)11. (Card Playing) The discarded cards which the dealer can use in scoring points in cribbage.()v. t.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. To pilfer or purloin; hence, to steal from an author; to appropriate; to plagiarize; as, to crib a line from Milton.()Child, being fond of toys, cribbed the necklace. (Dickens.)v. i.1. To crowd together, or to be confined, as in a crib or in narrow accommodations.()Who sought to make . . . bishops to crib in a Presbyterian trundle bed. (Gauden.)2. To make notes for dishonest use in recitation or examination.()3. To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind; -- said of a horse.()