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cribbage|ˈkrɪbɪdʒ|
Also 7–9 cribbidge.
[f. crib n. and v. + -age.
In sense 1, cribbage is known earlier than any recorded instance of crib n. 16; but this is perh. only accidental.]
1. A game at cards, played by two, three, or four persons, with a complete pack of 52 cards, five (or six) of which are dealt to each player, and a board with sixty-one holes on which the points are scored by means of pegs; a characteristic feature being the ‘crib’, consisting of cards thrown out from each player's hand, and belonging to the dealer.
1630R. Brathwait Eng. Gentlem. (1641) 126 In games at Cards..the Cribbage [requires] a recollected fancy. 1674S. Vincent Gallants Acad. 68 Such Ladies with whom you have plaid at Cribbidge. 1711Puckle Club ⁋123 Guess then the numbers of frauds there are at Picquet, Gleck..Basset, Cribbidge, and all the rest of the games upon the cards. 1768Goldsm. Good-n. Man iii. i, Men that would go forty guineas on a game of cribbage. 1820Hoyle's Games Impr. 149 Mode of playing five-card cribbage..Eight-card cribbage is sometimes played; but very seldom. 1840Dickens Old C. Shop xxiii, He proposed a game of four-handed cribbage.
2. The action of ‘cribbing’, or that which is ‘cribbed’; plagiarism. (colloq. rare.)
In first quot. with play on sense 1.
1830Blackw. Mag. XXVII. 146 You think you are writing poetry, while you are only playing at cribbage. 1852Ibid. LXXII. 681 The only tolerable parts of the book were palpable cribbages from poor Ruxton.
b. Something ‘cribbed’ or stolen.
1862H. Marryat Year in Sweden II. 54 Gustaf Adolf..signed his abdication on an inlaid table—a Thirty Years War cribbage,—which stands under this very picture.
3. attrib. and Comb., as cribbage-card, cribbage-peg, cribbage-player, cribbage-table; cribbage-board, the board used for marking at cribbage; cribbage-faced a. (see quot.).
1755Mrs. Delany Let. Mrs. Dewes 17 Nov., My brother is in great request at the cribbage-table. 1769Mrs. Raffald Eng. Housekpr. (1778) 205 To make Cribbage Cards in Flummery. 1785Grose Dict. Vulg. T., Cribbage-faced, marked with the small-pox, the pits bearing a kind of resemblance to the holes in a cribbage-board. 1810Reformist II. 104 That skinny cribbage-faced little devil in pink. 1821Lamb Elia, Old Benchers, [He] turned cribbage-boards, and such small cabinet toys, to perfection. 1824Miss Mitford Village 1st Ser. (1863) 217 We cribbage-players are as well amused as they. 183936 Years Seafaring Life 46 Written in legible characters on his old cribbage face. |