Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
crib , 11. - noun Same as
crib-biting .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of inclosing or confining in a crib or in close quarters.
- noun colloq. Purloining; stealing; plagiarizing.
- noun (Mining) A framework of timbers and plank backing for a shaft lining, to prevent caving, percolation of water, etc.
- noun A vicious habit of a horse; crib-biting. The horse lays hold of the crib or manger with his teeth and draws air into the stomach with a grunting sound.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
crib . - noun The members used to build a (structural)
crib , usually oftimbers orlogs , but also of concrete, steel or even plastic; cribwork. - noun As a whole, the heavy structure built to support an existing structure from underneath, as with a
mineshaft or when raising abuilding off its foundation, as for moving to another location, - noun The cribbing used to support anything from below or on a side, as with a retaining wall, or to prop up a piece of heavy machinery.
- noun A self-injurious tendency of certain
horses to swallow air while slobbering and biting onto objects in and about their enclosure and regarded as an equine form ofobsessive-compulsive disorder .
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Examples
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Nothing about Sarah Palin cribbing notes on her hand, why?
Think Progress » Did Palin write the answers to Tea Party Convention questions on her hand? 2010
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When I returned, I found him cribbing from a Lonely Planet guidebook he had hidden in his knapsack.
Hidden Kingdom 2007
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When I returned, I found him cribbing from a Lonely Planet guidebook he had hidden in his knapsack.
Hidden Kingdom 2007
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The city parks department has reconstructed the "cribbing" - a timber box that would likely have surrounded the shaft at one time.
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It may be that you’re left with cribbing from a ‘hotel room’ set of exercises for a while.
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Let’s play the J’aime/je n’aime pas game, which I am totally cribbing from the bloggers Jenny Davidson and Ed Park, who cribbed it from Roland Barthes, who said: like, I don’t like: this is of no importance to anyone; this, apparently, has no meaning.
J’aime/Je n’aime pas : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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Let’s play the J’aime/je n’aime pas game, which I am totally cribbing from the bloggers Jenny Davidson and Ed Park, who cribbed it from Roland Barthes, who said:
2007 September : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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| Reply | Permalink the second part of the cribbing is the lobbyist angle.
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He generally took such enormous strides, when moved with a sudden desire to punish some lost soul, whom he might suspect of the heinous crimes of idleness or "cribbing" -- both unforgivable offences in his calendar -- that the aforesaid gown, I recollect, seemed frequently to float over his head -- forming in conjunction with his square college cap, alias "mortar board," a regular "nimbus," like that surrounding the heads of the saints in old pictures.
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The original church was replaced in 1909 because the original structure sat on a wooden framework known as cribbing,
unknown title 2009
dailyword commented on the word cribbing
A lot of horses do this.
August 9, 2012
bilby commented on the word cribbing
Pity we don't have a list for animal obsessive-compulsive disorders.
August 9, 2012