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  • The anterior face is convex and cribbled by openings, and the inferior face is concave, forming the sole.

    Common Diseases of Farm Animals R. A. Craig

  • He cribbled and crabbled about there with all his might; but he got a good pressing from the boy's hand for this, which served as a hint to him to keep quiet.

    What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales Alfred Walter Bayes 1840

  • You dies _straight, _ like a gentleman -- not cribbled up like a snow-fish, chucked out on the ice of the river St Lawrence, with your knees up to your nose, or your toes stuck into your arm-pits, as does take place in some of your foreign complaints; but straight, quite straight, and limber, like a _gentleman_.

    Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2 Frederick Marryat 1820

  • You dies _straight_, like a gentleman -- not cribbled up like a snow-fish, chucked out on the ice of the river St. Lawrence, with your knees up to your nose, or your toes stuck into your arm-pits, as does take place in some of your foreign complaints; but straight, quite straight, and limber, like a _gentleman_.

    Peter Simple Frederick Marryat 1820

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