Definitions for: Crib


[n] a card game in which each player is dealt 6 cards and discards one or two to make up the crib
[n] baby bed with high sides
[n] a literal translation used in studying a foreign language (often used illicitly)
[v] line with beams or planks, as of construction holes
[v] take unauthorized (intellectual material)
[v] use a crib, as in an exam



Webster (1913) Definition: Crib (kr?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.]
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. [Canada]

9. A small theft; anything purloined;; a plagiaris?; 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. A miner's luncheon. [Cant] --Raymond.

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


Crib, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cribbed (kr?bd); p. pr. & vb.
n. Cribbing.]
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. [Colloq.]

Child, being fond of toys, cribbed the necklace.
--Dickens.


Crib, v. i.
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. To make notes for dishonest use in recitation or
examination. [College Cant]

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

Synonyms: cot, cribbage, pony, trot

See Also: baby bed, baby's bed, card game, cards, cheat, chisel, interlingual rendition, lift, line, plagiarise, plagiarize, rendering, translation, version

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