crib

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A bed with high sides for a young child or baby.
• noun A small building, usually with slatted sides, for storing corn.
• noun A rack or trough for fodder; a manger.
• noun A stall for cattle.
• noun A small crude cottage or room.
• noun Slang One's home.
• noun A framework to support or strengthen a mine or shaft.
• noun A wicker basket.
• noun A petty theft.
• noun Plagiarism.
• noun Games A set of cards made up from discards by each player in cribbage, used by the dealer.
• intransitive verb To confine or cramp.
• intransitive verb To furnish with a crib.
• intransitive verb To plagiarize (an idea or answer, for example).
• intransitive verb To steal.
• intransitive verb To plagiarize; cheat.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To shut or confine as in a crib; cage; coop.
• To line with timbers or planking: said of a shaft or pit.
• To pilfer; purloin; steal.
• To translate (a passage from a classic) by means of a crib. See crib, n., 16.
• To be confined in or to a crib.
• To make use of cribs in translating. See crib, n., 16.
• To make up (logs, boards, or staves) into small rafts or cribs to be united later into a large raft.
• noun Short for cribble.
• noun The manger or rack of a stable or house for cattle; a feeding-place for cattle; specifically, in the Roman Catholic Church, a representation of the manger in which Christ was born. See bambino.
• noun A stall for oxen or other cattle; a pen for cattle.
• noun A small frame with inclosed sides for a child's bed. A small chamber; a small lodging or habitation.
• noun A situation; a place or position: as, a snug crib.
• noun A house, shop, warehouse, or public house.
• noun A box or bin for storing grain, salt, etc. See corn-crib.
• noun A lockup.
• noun A solid structure of timber or logs (see cribwork) secured under water to serve as a wharf, jetty, dike, or other support or barrier; also, a foundation so made with the superstructure raised upon it, as the crib in Lake Michigan from which water is supplied to Chicago.
• noun A solidly built floating foundation or support.
• noun An inner lining of a shaft, consisting of a frame of timbers and a backing of planks, used to keep the earth from caving in, prevent water from trickling through, etc. Also called cribbing.
• noun A reel for winding yarn.
• noun A division of a raft of staves, containing a thousand staves.
• noun In the game of cribbage, a set of cards made up of two thrown from the hand of each player. See cribbage.
• noun A theft, or the thing stolen; specifically, anything copied from an author without acknowledgment.
• noun A literal translation of a classic author for the illegitimate use of students.
• noun The bowl or trap of a pound-net.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• intransitive verb rare To crowd together, or to be confined, as in a crib or in narrow accommodations.
• intransitive verb College Cant To make notes for dishonest use in recitation or examination.
• intransitive verb To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind; -- said of a horse.