cribn.

Brit.

/krɪb/, U.S.

/krɪb/

Forms: Old English, Middle English– crib; also Old English, Middle English–1500s cryb, Middle English–1600s cribbe, Middle English kribbe, Middle English crybe, Middle English–1500s crybbe, Middle English crebe, 1600s cribb, krib(b, ( crub).

Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.

Etymology: A common West Germanic noun: Old English crib(b) (feminine) = Old Frisian cribbe , Old Saxon kribbja (Middle Dutch cribbe , Dutch krib , kribbe ), Old High German chrippa (Middle High German and modern German krippe ). Supposed to be etymologically related to Middle High German krebe masculine basket, which may again stand in ablaut relation to korb , corf n.¹: see Kluge, Franck.

I. A manger or small habitation, and related uses.

a. A barred receptacle for fodder used in cowsheds and fold-yards; also in fields, for beasts lying out during the winter; a cratch n.¹ (In nearly all early quots. applied to the manger in which the infant Christ was laid; cf. cratch n.¹)

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the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feeding animals > [noun] > fodder rack

cribOE

hatchlOE

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heckc1420

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hay-rack1825

the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of cattle > [noun] > housing or sheltering of cattle > cattle stall

boosyc950

cribOE

ox-stallc1330

boosec1440

corn-crib1716

OE Crist III 1425 Lytel þuhte ic leoda bearnum, læg ic on heardum stane, cildgeong on crybbe.

c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 3711 Te laferrd iesu crist. Wass leȝȝd inn asse cribbe.

1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 5200 Born..and layd..In a cribbe, bytwen an ox and an asse.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 11253 In a crib he sal be funden.

c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 97 Þe oxe knowiþ his weldar, and þe as þe crib of his lord.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Job xxxix. 9 Wyll the vnicorne be so tame as..to abyde still by thy cribbe?

1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 142^v Serpents, that many times lie hid vnder their [sc. sheep's] Cribbes.

1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet v. ii. 88 Let a beast be Lord of beasts, and his crib shall stand at the Kings messe.

1712 A. Pope Messiah in Spectator No. 350 The Steer and Lion at one Crib shall meet.

1847 F. Marryat Children of New Forest I. v. 94 The animal could move about a little and eat out of the crib.

1884 West Sussex Gaz. 25 Sept. 2/4 Circular iron and oak bullock cribs.

b. Originally Roman Catholic Church. A representation of the manger in which the infant Christ was laid, erected in churches.

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society > faith > artefacts > symbol (general) > Christian symbols or images > [noun] > representing the manger

presepio1759

crib1885

society > leisure > social event > festive occasion > specific festivities > [noun] > festivities associated with Christmas > representation of the Nativity scene > crib

crèche1783

crib1885

1885 W. E. Addis & T. Arnold Catholic Dict. (ed. 3) (at cited word) The present custom of erecting a crib in the churches at Christmas time..began during the thirteenth century.

c. Astronomy. The star-cluster Præsepe in Cancer.

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the world > the universe > constellation > star-cluster > [noun] > Praesepe

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manger1556

cratch1647

Praesepe1658

beehive1869

1556 R. Record Castle of Knowl. 266 Cancer containing 8 stars, beside a cloudy tract which is named y^e Manger or Crybbe.

a1718 R. Cumberland Origines Gentium Antiq. (1724) 93 The constellation Cancer, in which the Aselli and their crib is plac'd.

2. ‘The stall or cabin of an ox’ (Johnson).

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a1340 R. Rolle Psalter 512 Nete sall noght be in kribbis.

1611 Bible (King James) Prov. xiv. 4 Where no Oxen are, the crib is cleane.

1841 E. W. Lane tr. Thousand & One Nights I. 13 The Merchant..went to the bull's crib, and sat down there, and the driver came and took out the bull.

1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 416/2 The calf-house..should be..divided into separate sparred cribs or hutches.

1884 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester (1886) Crib, a small cote to put young calves in.

a. A small habitation, cabin, hovel; a narrow room; figurative a confined space. In New Zealand now esp. a small house at the seaside or at a holiday resort.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > hut or hovel > [noun]

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barrack1686

bothy1750

corf1770

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kraal1832

shelty1834

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shebang1867

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hale1885

bach1927

jhuggi1927

favela1961

hokkie1973

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > types of room generally > [noun] > small room

parrockOE

cellc1300

cabin1362

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camerelle?c1475

crib1600

narrow cell1636

pigeonhole1703

closet1728

box1773

cuddy1793

cubby-hole1842

roomlet1855

cubby1868

cubby-house1880

cwtch1890

cellule1894

1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 (2nd issue) iii. i. 9 Why rather sleepe liest thou in smoaky cribbes..Then in the perfumde chambers of the great.

1858 A. H. Clough Amours de Voyage in Atlantic Monthly Feb. 419 The world..Whithersoever we turn, still is the same narrow crib.

1862 C. R. Thatcher Dunedin Songster No. 1. 5 The weather and time had so peppered that tumbledown crib, I declare.

1886 W. Besant Children of Gibeon II. ii. vi. 48 There were no confessional cribs and no candles.

1887 H. Caine Deemster II. xxviii. 282 Shutting himself in this dusty crib, the Bishop drew from under the bed a glass-covered case.

1929 W. S. Smyth Bonzer Jones xvii. 213 ‘Here's my crib,’ he announced.

1947 ‘A. P. Gaskell’ Big Game 88 If it's fine George will be taking them up to his crib.

1962 Guardian 21 July 6/4 An index to social status in New Zealand..is possession of the seaside bach (in Southland, the crib).

1963 N.Z. Truth 24 Sept. ‘You know my sea~side summer bach?’ ‘Bach? What the South Islanders call a crib?’

1970 D. M. Davin Not here, not Now ii. ix. 115 Then back to the crib again, set off the road in the bush.

b. Thieves' slang. A dwelling-house, shop, public-house, etc. to crack a crib: see crack v. 11.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > place of resort > [noun]

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repair1423

repairing1487

resorting place1525

common house1537

resort1565

place (also house) of repairc1595

purlieu1611

howff1711

crib1819

joint1821

hang-out1852

costa1964

1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 165 Crib, a house, sometimes applied to shops.

1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist I. xix. 316 Now, my dear, about that crib at Chertsey.

1844 J. T. J. Hewlett Parsons & Widows II. xxii. 67 The grocer's crib, as he called it.

c. A lock-up; a bridewell. local.

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1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words

1879 in Shropshire Word-bk.

d. slang (chiefly U.S.). A saloon, ‘low dive’, or brothel. Also crib-house, crib-joint.

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the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > tavern or public house > low drinking-house

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bousing ken1567

fuddling-school1680

sot-bay1707

night-cellar1729

sot-hole1755

lush-ken1790

lush-crib1819

Tom and Jerry shop1824

Tom and Jerry1836

deadfall1837

jerry1851

shoful1851

cribc1865

bucket-shop1875

barrel-house1883

lushing-ken1883

shebang1901

barrel shop1904

blood house1913

smoke joint1931

shypoo1936

smoke-shop1937

dive bar1974

c1865 B. A. Baker Glance at N.Y. 23 Let's take a drink; there's a crib open.

1882 Sydney Slang Dict. 3/2 Drum, or crib, house of ill repute.

1901 ‘J. Flynt’ World of Graft 219 Crib, gambling dive.

1926 J. Black You can't Win (1927) xiv. 199 I'll make the cribs myself. I'm dynamite with them old brums in the cribs.

1930 J. Dos Passos 42nd Parallel 320 The little lighted cribhouses.

1932 B. De Voto Mark Twain's Amer. vi. 124 The palaces blended with scores of dance halls..parlor houses, cribs.

1958 P. Gammond Decca Bk. Jazz iii. 42 Forced into the dives and crib-joints of the red-light district of New Orleans.

4. figurative. A ‘berth’, ‘place’, situation. slang.

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1865 J. Hatton Bitter Sweets vii It's a snug crib this.

a. A small rectangular bed for a child, with barred or latticed sides. (Sometimes loosely = cradle.)

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > types of bed > [noun] > cot or cradle

cradlec1000

cader?c1225

crete1340

cunablesa1549

rocker1566

wicker1646

crib1649

cather?1748

cunabula1774

cot1813

co-sleeper1997

1649 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 220 One trundle bedstead and an halfe trundle bedstead, a cribb.

1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Crib..6. A small frame for a child to sleep in.

1832 H. Martineau Weal & Woe vii. 86 Fergus was kneeling at the foot of the child's crib.

1857 W. Collins Dead Secret I. iii. ii. 157 Having a nurse to engage and a crib to buy.

†b. transferred. Child, baby. Obsolete. Cf. cribber n. 1.

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1702 Lady M. Coke in Cowper MSS. (Hist. MSS. Comm.) II. 447 Your Crib is well, and all are yours.

1702 Lady M. Coke in Cowper MSS. (Hist. MSS. Comm.) II. 453 Inquire me out a nursery maid, because your crib is weaning.

6. figurative.

†a. A close-fisted person, one who keeps a tight hold of what he has. Obsolete.

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the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > [noun] > niggard or mean person

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chinch?a1300

nigc1300

chincher1333

shut-purse1340

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haynec1386

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pinchera1425

pinchpenny?c1425

pynepenya1450

pelt1511

chincherda1529

churl1535

pinchbeck1538

carl?1542

penny-father1549

nipfarthing1566

nipper?1573

holdfast1576

pinchpence1577

pinch fistc1580

pinchfart1592

shit-sticks1598

clunchfist1606

puckfist1606

sharp-nose1611

spare-good1611

crib1622

hog grubber?1626

dry-fist1633

clusterfist1652

niggardling1654

frummer1659

scrat1699

sting-hum1699

nipcheese1785

pincha1825

screw1825

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tightwad1906

stinge1914

penny-peeler1925

mean1938

stiff1967

1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue i. 251 That his wife be close-fisted, a very Crib.

b. dialect, Australian, and New Zealand. Food, provisions; a light meal or snack; a piece of bread, cake, etc. Frequently attributive.

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the world > food and drink > food > [noun]

meateOE

eatOE

foodOE

fodderOE

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gista1290

victual1303

victualsa1375

preya1382

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pasturea1398

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feed1818

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nyam1828

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chow1886

nosebag1888

stodge1890

food aid1900

tackle1900

munga1907

scarf1932

grubber1959

the world > food and drink > food > meal > [noun] > light meal or snacks

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morsela1382

refection?a1439

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bever1500

banquet1509

collation1525

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a little something1577

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watering1637

refreshment1639

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crib1652

prandicle1656

munchin1657

baita1661

unch1663

afternooning1678

whet1688

nacket1694

merenda1740

rinfresco1745

bagging?1746

snack1757

coffee1774

second breakfast1775

nummit1777

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damper1804

eleven o'clock1805

noonshine1808

by-bit1819

morning1819

four1823

four o'clock1825

lunch1829

stay-bit1833

picnic meal1839

elevens1849

Tommy1864

picnic tea1869

dinnerette1872

merienda1880

elevenses1887

light bite1887

soldier's supper1893

mug-up1902

tray1914

café complet1933

nosha1941

namkeen1942

snax1947

snackette1952

chaat1954

ploughman's lunch1957

munchie1959

playlunch1960

short-eat1962

lite bite1965

munchie1971

ploughman1975

aperitivo2002

the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > piece of bread > [noun]

breadeOE

crib1652

toke1843

1652 R. Brome Joviall Crew ii. sig. F3 Here's Pannum and Lap, and good Poplars of Yarrum, To fill up the Crib, and to comfort the Quarron.

1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. (at cited word) Haste ye, and gi'e me ma..crib, Guid-wife.

1872 Notes & Queries 4th Ser. 9 47/1 The gift..was generally a small cake..and was called the ‘christening crib’—a crib of bread or cake being a provincialism for a bit of bread, &c.

1880 M. A. Courtney W. Cornwall Words in M. A. Courtney & T. Q. Couch Gloss. Words Cornwall 15/2 Crib, a crust of bread; fragments of meat. ‘Eat up your cribs.’

1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 124 Crib...3. A miner's luncheon.

1889 Daily News 4 Apr. 4/8 In the pocket of each of the garments was a pasty and a ‘crib’ (apparently a small loaf).

1904 ‘G. B. Lancaster’ Sons o' Men 159 Sereld..growled because someone had spilt tobacco-ash into his crib—which is bushman for dinner.

1908 Westm. Gaz. 13 May 6/1 Half an hour's ‘crib’ time [at Blackball, N.Z.] is also granted.

1926 K. S. Prichard Working Bullocks xi. 108 Red picked up his crib-bag.

1928 J. Devanny Dawn Beloved xxx. 273 He stopped..to hang up his towel and crib tin.

1942 A. L. Rowse Cornish Childhood ii. 30 He used to take it to work with him and at crib-time (i.e. lunch-time) would entertain his fellows with it.

1947 A. Vogt in D. M. Davin N.Z. Short Stories (1953) 364 Ben went to work [in the bush] each day like the rest of the men, with his crib and oil-skin.

1954 Coast to Coast 1953–4 37 Jacques was holding out his crib. ‘Time to eat.’.. Crib over, the men rolled cigarettes.

1971 J. Turner Stone Dormitory iii. 30 ‘Just come in for me crib. It's time.’.. ‘It's ready for you, Tom,’ she said, putting the bread and cheese and tea before him.

II. A receptacle for storage, and related uses.

†7.

a. A wickerwork basket, pannier, or the like. In quot. 1648 a bag. Obsolete.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > basket > [noun]

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criba1387

skippetc1450

corfc1483

wisket1542

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cleave1577

serpet1615

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maeshie1822

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1872) IV. 353 Þey putte hym in a litel cribbe i-schape as a litel bote.

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. cxxviii. 1376 Fiscella is a litel euelong cribbe ouþer a panyer, yweue wiþ smale ȝerdes of wiþye oþer of persche.

1648 W. Davenant Vacation in London With canvas crib To girdle tied..Where worms are put, which must small fish Betray at night to earthen dish.

1676 J. Worlidge Vinetum Britannicum 90 You may have a Basket or Crib..and put Straw round it in the inside.

b. The bin n. used in hop-picking.

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c1830 Mrs. Sherwood in Houlston Tracts III. lxxii. 10 Come along this way to the crib (that is, the sheet or cloth into which the hop blossoms are cut).

†8. A crate or measure of glass. Obsolete. Cf. crate n.¹ 2b, cradle n. 6c.)

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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > glass and glass-like materials > [noun] > glass > measure or quantity of

sheaf1402

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way1558

web1558

crib1688

crate1823

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 385/1 A Load of Glass is two Kribbs; a Krib is 100 or 150 Foot of cut Glass.

9. Salt-making. An apparatus like a hay-rack in which the salt is placed to drain after boiling. ? Obsolete.

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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > salt manufacture > [noun] > equipment

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Neptune1662

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ship1669

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cribc1682

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hovel1686

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salt-pan1708

sun pond1708

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taplin1748

drab1753

room1809

thorn house1853

thorn-wall1853

fore-heater1880

pike1884

trunk1885

c1682 J. Collins Salt & Fishery 54 The Liquor that Dreynes from the Salt in the Cribs is a sort of Bittern.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Crib in the English Salt Works..These cribs are like hay-racks, wide at the top, and tapering to a narrow bottom, with wooden ribs..placed so close, that the salt cannot easily fall through them.

10.

a. A wickerwork contrivance for catching salmon; a cruive n.

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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > fish-trap > [noun] > basket

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leapc1000

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willow1385

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willy1602

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putcher1781

fish-coop1803

fishing box1861

crib1873

1873 Act 36 & 37 Victoria c. 71 Sched. iii License Duties..For each..weir..box, crib, or cruive.

1873 Act 36 & 37 Victoria c. 71 §17 Any legal fishing mill dam not having a crib, box, or cruive.

b. The enclosure for trapped fish in a pound-net. U.S.

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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > fish-keeping, farming, or breeding > [noun] > fish-weir or -garth

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fishgarth1454

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garth1609

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fish-yard1685

fishing-pen1791

eelery1854

fishing-weir1870

crib1873

ark1883

kiddle1891

1873 Rep. U.S. Fish Commission i. 264 The pound-nets..have several parts, termed the ‘leader’, the ‘heart’, the ‘pot’, ‘bowl’, or ‘crib’, and the ‘tunnel’.

a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 231/1 Crib (Fishing), the bowl or pound of a Pound Net.

11. A framework of bars or spars for strengthening, support, etc.; see quots. Cf. cradle n. 6.

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the world > space > relative position > support > [noun] > that which supports > supporting framework

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cratch1382

frame1388

brandreth1483

scaffold?1523

crate1526

bone1542

framework1578

anatomy1591

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brake1623

truss1654

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carcass1663

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crib1693

scaffolding1789

staddlea1800

gantry1810

cradling1823

potence1832

ossaturea1878

tower1970

the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > [noun] > means of protection or defence > device or contrivance to protect a thing or person > framework

cradle1561

crib1693

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > [noun] > slip on which ships built or repaired > framework on which vessel rests

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trestle1612

cradle1627

boat cradle1829

gridiron1846

skid1856

grid1867

crib1883

1693 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 17 895 Preserving the Banks of Rivers, by building Wings or Cribs to break the force of the Water.

1708 S. Molyneux in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 26 38 A large Tub..of Wood inclosed with a Crib made of Brick and Lime.

1883 F. M. Crawford Mr. Isaacs iii. 49 As the crib holds the ship in her place while she is building.

12. Mining. A framework of timber, etc., lining a shaft, to prevent the earth from caving in, or water from trickling through.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > mining equipment > [noun] > pit supports

yoking1653

set1830

crib1839

tub1839

wedging crib1839

cribbing1841

ring crib1849

tack1849

tymp1883

1839 Ann. Reg. 41 It was necessary to construct what is termed a crib; that is a cylinder corresponding to the dimensions of the shaft.

1849 G. C. Greenwell Gloss. Terms Coal Trade Northumberland & Durham 19 Common cribs are circles of wood, usually oak, from 4 to 6 inches square, and are used to support the sides of a pit when the stone is bad.

1881 Pop. Sc. Monthly XIX. 28 A shaft or crib is sunk..to prevent the sides from caving in.

13. A rectangular frame of logs or beams strongly fastened together and secured under water to form a pier, dam, etc.; sometimes including the superstructure raised upon it. (Canadian and U.S.)

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the world > the earth > water > [noun] > anything built in or round water > framework of

crib1816

1816 [see crib-dam n. at Compounds 2].

1867 Harper's Weekly 20 Apr. 252/4 The flood-gates of the ‘crib’ were opened.

1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Crib..6. A structure of logs to be anchored with stones. Cribs are used for bridge-piers, ice-breakers, dams, etc.

1881 Proc. Inst. Civil Engineers 63 268 (Cribwork in Canada) Cribs are merely open or close boxes, made of timbers strongly framed together.

1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 10 Oct. 7/2 Fourteen men were employed at a crib in the lake at the outer end of the tunnel.

14. A small raft of boards or staves to be floated down a small stream, a number of which are made up into a large raft. (Canadian and U.S.)

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1776 C. Carroll Jrnl. (1845) 47 The smaller rafts are called cribs.

1813 W. Johnson Reports X Light cribs of boards would float over the dam in safety.

1880 Lumberman's Gaz. 28 Jan. When the streams get wide enough the ‘sticks’ are made into ‘cribs’, and these, again, are made up into ‘rafts’..Cribs are formed of about 20 sticks of timber fastened between two logs called ‘floats’.

15. A bin or place with sparred or slatted sides for storing Indian corn (= corn-crib n. b); also for salt and other commodities. U.S.

ΚΠ

1823 J. D. Hunter Mem. Captivity 258 The corn [is preserved] in cribs, constructed of small poles and bark of trees.

1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Crib..5. A small building, raised on posts, for storing Indian corn.

1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Crib..4. A box or bin for storing grain, salt, etc.

III. Senses relating to games.

16. Cards.

a. The set of cards made up of two (or one) thrown out from each player's hand, and given to the dealer, in the game of cribbage.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > cribbage > [noun] > cards given to dealer

crib1680

1680 C. Cotton Compl. Gamester (ed. 2) viii Sometimes it so happens that he is both bilkt in hand and crib.

?1870 F. Hardy & J. R. Ware Mod. Hoyle 79 [article Cribbage] The players..each throw out two [cards] for the crib, face downwards..The four cards constituting ‘crib’ belong to the dealer.

?1870 F. Hardy & J. R. Ware Mod. Hoyle 80 [article Cribbage] Having counted his hand, the dealer proceeds in like manner to count his crib.

b. Also, short for cribbage n. (colloquial)

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > cribbage > [noun]

cribbage1641

crib1885

1885 Standard 3 Apr. 2/6 He had played..at ‘whist’ and ‘crib’.

IV. Senses from crib v.

17. The act of ‘cribbing’; a petty theft. (See crib v. 7.) rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > petty theft or pilfering > [noun]

micherya1393

mitchinga1393

picking1402

purloining1417

pilferc1425

pickery1460

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filching1567

lurching1570

pilfery1573

petty larceny1578

filching-tradea1592

prigging1591

filchery1607

nimming1607

sneaking-budge1699

pilferage1732

cabbaging1774

weeding1819

pilferment1823

crib1855

filch1877

souveniring1919

1855 R. Browning Fra Lippo Lippi in Men & Women I. 42 To confess Their cribs of barrel-droppings, candle-ends.

18. Something ‘cribbed’ or taken without acknowledgement, as a passage from an author; a plagiarism. (colloquial)

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > plagiarism > [noun] > instance of

plagiarya1643

pinch1757

plagiarism1780

crib1834

1834 T. Medwin Angler in Wales I. 207 That's a crib from Waller, I declare.

1876 A. M. Fairbairn in Contemp. Rev. June 130 It was a crib from himself.

19. A translation of a classic or other work in a foreign language, for the illegitimate use of students. (colloquial)

ΘΚΠ

society > education > learning > study > subject or object of study > [noun] > crib

crib1828

cab1849

cabbage1870

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > translation > [noun] > used at school

Latinc1500

version1711

pony1827

crib1828

paving1877

trot1924

1828 E. Bulwer-Lytton Pelham I. ii. 11 I could read Greek fluently, and even translate it through the medium of the Latin version technically called a crib.

1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. III. vi. 97 Schoolboys caught by their master using a crib.

20. A complaint, grumble. colloquial.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > discontent or dissatisfaction > state of complaining > [noun] > a complaint

plainta1275

groinc1374

complaintc1385

murmura1393

grutchc1460

plainc1475

yammer?a1513

puling?1529

objecting1552

obmurmuration1571

regratea1586

repine1593

grumblinga1616

grumble1623

dissatisfactionc1640

obmurmuring1642

rumbling1842

natter1866

grouch1895

beef1900

holler1901

squawk1909

moan1911

yip1911

grouse1918

gripe1934

crib1943

bitch1945

drip1945

kvetch1957

1943 J. L. Hunt & A. G. Pringle Service Slang 26 People have their own pet cribs.

Compounds

C1. General attributive. (See sense 13.)

crib timber-work n.

ΚΠ

1884 Harper's Mag. Sept. 621/2 Sluices..are constructed through a mass of crib timber-work.

C2.

crib-bite v. (intransitive) to have the practice or habit of crib-biting.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > habits and actions of horse > [verb (intransitive)] > practise crib-biting

tickc1721

crib-bite1844

1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 229 He continued to crib-bite or wind-suck.

crib-biter n. a horse addicted to crib-biting; also figurative; also, a grumbler.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > discontent or dissatisfaction > state of complaining > [noun] > one who complains

grucchildc1230

grutchera1250

groinera1382

musera1382

plainerc1400

plaintiff?a1439

fretter?1504

complainant1525

complainer1526

repiner1551

grudger1552

moaner1628

grumbler1633

querulist1647

maunderer1653

growler1753

grumbletonian1773

smellfungus1807

crib-biter1809

expostulatora1834

squinny1849

groaner1876

grouser1885

squealer1889

gruntler1893

grump1900

grouch1901

screamer1902

Moaning Minnie1934

narker1937

binder1944

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > habits and actions of horse > [noun] > wind-sucking or crib-biting > horse given to

tickerc1721

crib-biter1809

wind-sucker1825

1809 Sporting Mag. 34 190 A bay horse..found to be a crib-biter.

1832 F. Marryat Newton Forster III. iii. 39 I have lately used iron pens, for I'm a devil of a crib-biter.

1860 J. C. Hotten Dict. Slang (ed. 2) 124 Crib biter, an inveterate grumbler; properly said of a horse which has this habit, a sign of its bad digestion.

crib-biting n. the vice or morbid habit of seizing the manger (or other object) with the teeth and at the same time noisily drawing in the breath (wind-sucking).

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > habits and actions of horse > [noun] > wind-sucking or crib-biting

tickc1721

crib-biting1831

wind-sucking1844

cribbing1864

1831 Ann. Reg. 25 Horses had the habit of crib-biting in very different degrees.

crib-breakwater n. U.S. a breakwater made of cribwork.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > flood or flooding > structures protecting from water or flooding > [noun] > breakwater

countermure1610

breaker1661

water-breakera1689

breakwater1769

floating harbour1841

water break1875

crib-breakwater1879

wave screen1883

stockade1891

Stabit1962

1879 Rep. Chief of Engineers, U.S. Army II. 1588 (Knight) Crib breakwater.

crib-bridge n. a bridge whose piers are formed of cribs (see 13).

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > means of travel > route or way > other means of passage or access > [noun] > bridge > bridge of other specific construction

pile bridge1758

thrusting-bridge1761

frame bridge1809

lock bridge1817

lattice-bridge1838

tubular bridge1850

girder-bridge1854

tubular1861

trestle-bridge1867

deck-bridge1874

transporter-bridge1893

gullet-bridge1896

crib-bridge1899

Bailey bridge1944

1899 Westm. Gaz. 8 Dec. 2/1 What military engineers call a ‘crib’ bridge.

crib-cracker n. slang a burglar (see 3b); so .

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > burglar > [noun]

housebreakera1400

burglary1533

burglar1541

burglarer1598

mill1607

mill-ken1667

hoister1708

crack1749

cracksman1819

screwsman1819

screwer1831

crib-cracker1879

cracker1886

key worker1895

houseman1904

home invader1907

in and out man1961

1879 Punch 3 May 201/1 A bludgeon as big As a crib-cracker's nobby persuader.

1883 G. R. Sims How Poor Live ii. 10 His talents as a ‘cribcracker’, and his adventures as a pickpocket.

1906 Daily Chron. 5 Dec. 6/6 The house is adequately protected against burglars and is proof against the amateur crib-cracker.

crib-cracking n.

ΚΠ

1852 Punch 9 Oct. 161/1 He..From cly~faking to crib-cracking turned.

crib-dam n. U.S. a dam formed of cribs.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > water > lake > pool > [noun] > artificially confined water > contrivance for impounding water > dam > types of

mill-dam1182

warrant1406

pond head1465

coffer-dam1736

batardeau1767

gather-dam1768

frame dam1774

crib-dam1816

shutter-dama1884

suddc1900

needle gate1909

check-dam1936

gravity dam1940

1816 Niles' Reg. 9 Suppl. 164/2 These dams are built with timber, in the manner of crib dams, secured to the rocks below with iron bolts.

1877 Rep. Chief of Ordnance, U.S.A. 354 Crib dam.

crib-muzzle n. a muzzle worn by a horse to prevent crib-biting.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > other gear

trainel1283

forelock1467

trannet1504

lungec1721

allonge1773

long rein1775

housing1809

bandage1828

ankle boot1835

setting muzzle1835

nosebag1839

foot rope1854

breast-cord1861

safe1875

snubbing-post1875

toggery1877

crib-muzzlea1884

a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 231/1 Crib muzzle (Manége), a muzzle used to correct the equine habit of cribbing.

crib-rail n. a transverse member of the frame of a railway coach.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > railway wagon or carriage > parts of frame of

under-frame1855

headstock1869

cant-rail1871

sill1874

transom1891

sole-bar1930

crib-rail1958

1958 Engineering 14 Mar. 344/1 The body pillars, cantrail and cribrails are in 12 s.w.g.

crib-strap n. (see quot.).

ΚΠ

1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Crib-strap (Menage), a neck-throttler for crib-biting and wind sucking horses.

cribwork n. work consisting or formed of cribs (sense 13); also attributive.

ΚΠ

1873 F. Robertson Engin. Notes 56 Cribwork..consists of logs notched on to each other in layers at right angles.

1881 Proc. Inst. Civil Engineers 63 271 A cribwork pier is easily ripped up and removed by an ordinary spoon dredge.

Draft additions April 2002

crib sheet n. = cheat sheet n. at cheat n.¹ Additions; a short digest or summary of the salient information on a particular topic (such as on a single sheet of paper), for quick, easy assimilation.

ΚΠ

a1940 ‘N. West’ Western Union Boy in Novels & Other Writings (1997) 425 He..decided to take no chances, so he went into his English 43 exam with a crib sheet in his pocket. The exam was easy and he didn't have to use the crib sheet.

1964 in Jrnl. Higher Educ. 37 (1966) 261 In addition, he would make up a special location index which tells him precisely where the various crib sheets have been placed.

1988 Guardian (Nexis) 13 Feb. I am always grateful to BMW (UK) for providing a crib-sheet with its test cars, listing what options are fitted and what they cost.

2001 Time 21 May 22/1 Here's a crib sheet on the worst terrorist attack in American history... How the government won its conviction... What evidence did the jury never see?.. Could it have been a wider conspiracy?

Draft additions June 2013

crib death n. chiefly North American = sudden infant death syndrome n. at sudden adj., adv., and n. Additions; an instance or case of this; cf. cot death n. at cot n.⁴ Compounds 2.

ΚΠ

1944 Jrnl. Pediatrics 25 374 The problem of sudden death in infants previously thought to be well (‘crib death’) has not as yet been completely solved.

1989 R. Bell Special Calling iii. 44 Our eight-month-old son, Bobby, had died in his carriage during his afternoon nap. Our pediatrician called it a crib death.

2003 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 13 July ii. 2/1 Years ago, pediatricians recommended parents put their babies on their backs to sleep because of concerns about crib death.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

cribv.

Brit.

/krɪb/, U.S.

/krɪb/

Etymology: < crib n.

†1. intransitive ? To feed at a crib. (In quot. a1500 humorously of persons.) Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xii. 114 Syrs, let vs cryb furst, For oone thyng or oder.

a. transitive. To shut up as in a crib or small compartment; to confine within a small space or narrow limits; to hamper. (In modern use generally as an echo of Shakespeare; cf. cabin v. 3.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > restriction of free action > restrict in free action [verb (transitive)]

bindc1200

hamper?a1366

chain1377

coarctc1400

prison?a1425

tether?a1505

fetter1526

imprisona1533

strait1533

swaddle1539

measure1560

shacklea1568

to tie up1570

manacle1577

straitena1586

hopple1586

immew16..

scant1600

cabina1616

criba1616

trammela1616

copse1617

cramp1625

cloister1627

incarcerate1640

hidebind1642

strait-lace1662

perstringe1679

hough-band1688

cabin1780

pin1795

strait jacket1814

peg1832

befetter1837

to tie the hands of1866

corset1935

society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restriction or limitation > restrict or limit [verb (transitive)] > in free action

bind971

hamper?a1366

chain1377

coarctc1400

prison?a1425

tether?a1505

fetter1526

imprisona1533

strait1533

swaddle1539

measure1560

shacklea1568

to tie up1570

manacle1577

straitena1586

hopple1586

immew16..

scant1600

cabina1616

criba1616

trammela1616

copse1617

cramp1625

cloister1627

incarcerate1640

hidebind1642

to box up1659

strait-lace1662

perstringe1679

hough-band1688

cabin1780

pin1795

strait jacket1814

peg1832

befetter1837

to tie the hands of1866

hog-tie1924

corset1935

a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iii. iv. 23 Now I am cabin'd, crib'd, confin'd, bound in.

1743 E. Poston Pratler (1747) I. 151 How must that which is boundless..be confin'd and cribb'd up within the narrow Limits of my..finite Capacity!

1826 T. De Quincey Gallery German Prose Classics: Lessing in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 730 The mind of Lessing was not cribbed and cabined within the narrow sphere of others.

1876 J. S. Blackie Songs Relig. & Life 34 Vainly the narrow wit of narrow men Within the walls which priestly lips have blest..Would crib thy presence.

b. To lock up, imprison. local. (crib n. 3c.)

ΚΠ

1849 C. Brontë Shirley III. ix. 212 They should be arrested, cribbed, tried, and brought in for Botany Bay.

c. To place (Indian corn, etc.) in a crib. U.S.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > storage or preservation of crops > [verb (transitive)] > gather into barn or granary > crib

crib1719

1719 J. Hempstead Diary 23 Oct. (1998) 91 I went to Stonington & Stephen to Cribb the Corn.

1745 J. MacSparran Diary 41 Harry finished cribbing ye corn.

1779 in Narragansett Hist. Reg. (1882) Oct. 95 Cribbed our corn.

1831 J. M. Peck Guide for Emigrants ii. 151 The value of the crop, then, before it is cribbed, is one hundred and twenty-five dollars.

1874 E. Eggleston Circuit Rider i. 17 Now, boys, crib your corn.

1939 These are our Lives (Federal Writers' Project, U.S.) 256 The buyers would crib eight and ten thousand bushel of wheat and corn.

3. intransitive. To lie as in a crib. (crib n. 5) Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of lying down or reclining > lie down or recline [verb (intransitive)] > as in a crib

crib1661

1661 J. Gauden Anti Baal-Berith: Binding of Covenant 35 Who sought to make..Bishops to crib in a Presbyterian trundle-bed.

4. transitive. To furnish with cribs. (crib n. 1.)

ΚΠ

1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (1681) v. §2. 67 A large Sheep-house for the housing of Sheep in winter, which may be Sheep-cribbed round about and in the middle too, to fother them therein.

5. To furnish with a crib or framework of timber. (crib n. 11 – 13.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > support > [verb (transitive)] > with a framework

crib1861

cradle1880

1861 Times 29 Aug. The [oil-] wells are sunk and cribbed to a depth of from 40 to 60 feet.

1862 Times 21 Jan. The shaft of the [coal-] pit was cribbed round with oak timber.

6. To make up (timber) into cribs or small rafts. U.S. (crib n. 14.)

ΚΠ

1876 Gen. Laws Minnesota c. 89. §1 Any person who may do..any manual labour in cutting,..cribbing or towing any logs, or timber in this state.

7. colloquial. To pilfer, purloin, steal; to appropriate furtively (a small part of anything). [Probably originally Thieves' slang, connected with sense 7 of the noun.]

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > petty theft or pilfering > pilfer [verb (transitive)]

mitcha1393

pelfa1400

purloinc1475

prowl?1529

finger1530

pilfer1532

lurchc1565

filch1567

filch1574

proloyne1581

nim1606

hook1615

truff1718

snaffle1725

crib1735

pettifog1759

magg1762

niffle1785

cabbage1793

weed1811

nibble1819

cab1825

smouch1826

snuga1859

mooch1862

attract1891

souvenir1897

rat1906

snipe1909

promote1918

salvage1918

smooch1941

1735 W. Pardon Dyche's New Gen. Eng. Dict. Crib, to with-hold, keep back, pinch, or thieve a Part out of Money given to lay out for Necessaries.

a1777 S. Foote Nabob (1778) i. 22 A brace of birds and a hare, that I cribbed this morning out of a basket of game.

1795 Hull Advertiser 31 Oct. 4/2 We would never have cribb'd your papers.

1821 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 1 Dec. 1337 Bits of ground cribbed..at different times, from the forest.

1862 Mrs. H. Wood Mrs. Halliburton's Troubles ii. xii. 204 We crib the time from play-hours.

1884 Times (Weekly ed.) 17 Oct. 2/3 How many Tory seats he can crib there.

absolute.1760 C. Johnstone Chrysal I. ii. viii. 194 Cribbing from the till.a1839 W. M. Praed Poems (1864) II. 8 Both of old were known to crib, And both were very apt to fib!

8. colloquial. To take or copy (a passage, a piece of translation, etc.) without acknowledgement, and use as one's own; to plagiarize.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > plagiarism > plagiarize [verb (transitive)]

usurpc1412

steal1544

plagiarize1660

book-pad1685

pirate1706

cabbage1773

crib1778

lift1885

plunder1896

society > education > learning > study > [verb (intransitive)] > crib

crib1778

pony1847

society > education > learning > study > [verb (transitive)] > crib

cabbage1773

crib1778

pony1847

1778 J. Home Alfred Prol. And crib the prologue from the bill of fare.

1844 J. T. J. Hewlett Parsons & Widows III. xlvii. 186 Flogged for cribbing another boy's verses.

1862 G. A. Sala Accepted Addr. 168 Antiquarian anecdotes (cribbed from Hone, etc.).

absolute.1862 J. Skelton Nugæ Criticæ vi. 266 I rather suspect that Homer..cribbed without..compunction from every old ballad that came in his way.1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 19 Oct. 3/1 At school..it was dishonourable to ‘crib’ because it would be to unfairly injure..others.

a. intransitive. Of horses: To practise crib-biting.

ΚΠ

1864 in Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang.

1892 Field 26 Nov. 820/2 No horse would crib after using this strap.

b. To complain, to grumble. colloquial. Cf. crib-biter n. at crib n. Compounds 2.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > discontent or dissatisfaction > state of complaining > complain [verb (intransitive)]

murkeOE

misspeakOE

yomer971

chidea1000

murkenOE

grutch?c1225

mean?a1300

hum13..

plainta1325

gruntc1325

plainc1325

musea1382

murmurc1390

complain1393

contrary1393

flitec1400

pinea1425

grummec1430

aggrudge1440

hoinec1440

mutterc1450

grudge1461

channerc1480

grunch1487

repine1529

storm?1553

expostulate1561

grumblea1586

gruntle1591

chunter1599

swagger1599

maunder1622

orp1634

objurgate1642

pitter1672

yelp1706

yammer1794

natter1804

murgeon1808

groan1816

squawk1875

jower1879

grouse1887

beef1888

to whip the cat1892

holler1904

yip1907

peeve1912

grouch1916

nark1916

to sound off1918

create1919

moana1922

crib1925

tick1925

bitch1930

gripe1932

bind1942

drip1942

kvetchc1950

to rag on1979

wrinch2011

1925 in E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words

1957 L. P. Hartley Hireling xi. 90 She calls on the neighbours, she's out half the time and doesn't answer the telephone, and when I start cribbing she just laughs.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	crib
释义	cribn. Brit. /krɪb/, U.S. /krɪb/ Forms: Old English, Middle English– crib; also Old English, Middle English–1500s cryb, Middle English–1600s cribbe, Middle English kribbe, Middle English crybe, Middle English–1500s crybbe, Middle English crebe, 1600s cribb, krib(b, ( crub). Origin: A word inherited from Germanic. Etymology: A common West Germanic noun: Old English crib(b) (feminine) = Old Frisian cribbe , Old Saxon kribbja (Middle Dutch cribbe , Dutch krib , kribbe ), Old High German chrippa (Middle High German and modern German krippe ). Supposed to be etymologically related to Middle High German krebe masculine basket, which may again stand in ablaut relation to korb , corf n.¹: see Kluge, Franck. I. A manger or small habitation, and related uses. 1. a. A barred receptacle for fodder used in cowsheds and fold-yards; also in fields, for beasts lying out during the winter; a cratch n.¹ (In nearly all early quots. applied to the manger in which the infant Christ was laid; cf. cratch n.¹) ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feeding animals > [noun] > fodder rack cribOE hatchlOE cratch?c1225 rack1343 mangerc1350 heckc1420 hake1551 stand heck1570 hack1612 meat rack1744 hay-rack1825 the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of cattle > [noun] > housing or sheltering of cattle > cattle stall boosyc950 cribOE ox-stallc1330 boosec1440 corn-crib1716 OE Crist III 1425 Lytel þuhte ic leoda bearnum, læg ic on heardum stane, cildgeong on crybbe. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 3711 Te laferrd iesu crist. Wass leȝȝd inn asse cribbe. 1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 5200 Born..and layd..In a cribbe, bytwen an ox and an asse. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 11253 In a crib he sal be funden. c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 97 Þe oxe knowiþ his weldar, and þe as þe crib of his lord. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Job xxxix. 9 Wyll the vnicorne be so tame as..to abyde still by thy cribbe? 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 142^v Serpents, that many times lie hid vnder their [sc. sheep's] Cribbes. 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet v. ii. 88 Let a beast be Lord of beasts, and his crib shall stand at the Kings messe. View more context for this quotation 1712 A. Pope Messiah in Spectator No. 350 The Steer and Lion at one Crib shall meet. 1847 F. Marryat Children of New Forest I. v. 94 The animal could move about a little and eat out of the crib. 1884 West Sussex Gaz. 25 Sept. 2/4 Circular iron and oak bullock cribs. b. Originally Roman Catholic Church. A representation of the manger in which the infant Christ was laid, erected in churches. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > symbol (general) > Christian symbols or images > [noun] > representing the manger presepio1759 crib1885 society > leisure > social event > festive occasion > specific festivities > [noun] > festivities associated with Christmas > representation of the Nativity scene > crib crèche1783 crib1885 1885 W. E. Addis & T. Arnold Catholic Dict. (ed. 3) (at cited word) The present custom of erecting a crib in the churches at Christmas time..began during the thirteenth century. c. Astronomy. The star-cluster Præsepe in Cancer. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > constellation > star-cluster > [noun] > Praesepe crib1556 manger1556 cratch1647 Praesepe1658 beehive1869 1556 R. Record Castle of Knowl. 266 Cancer containing 8 stars, beside a cloudy tract which is named y^e Manger or Crybbe. a1718 R. Cumberland Origines Gentium Antiq. (1724) 93 The constellation Cancer, in which the Aselli and their crib is plac'd. 2. ‘The stall or cabin of an ox’ (Johnson). ΚΠ a1340 R. Rolle Psalter 512 Nete sall noght be in kribbis. 1611 Bible (King James) Prov. xiv. 4 Where no Oxen are, the crib is cleane. View more context for this quotation 1841 E. W. Lane tr. Thousand & One Nights I. 13 The Merchant..went to the bull's crib, and sat down there, and the driver came and took out the bull. 1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 416/2 The calf-house..should be..divided into separate sparred cribs or hutches. 1884 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester (1886) Crib, a small cote to put young calves in. 3. a. A small habitation, cabin, hovel; a narrow room; figurative a confined space. In New Zealand now esp. a small house at the seaside or at a holiday resort. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > hut or hovel > [noun] hulka1000 boothc1200 hull?c1225 lodge1290 hottea1325 holetc1380 tavern1382 scalea1400 schura1400 tugury1412 donjon?a1439 cabinc1440 coshc1490 cabinet1579 bully1598 crib1600 shed1600 hut1637 hovela1640 boorachc1660 barrack1686 bothy1750 corf1770 rancho1819 shanty1820 kraal1832 shelty1834 shackle1835 mia-mia1837 wickiup1838 caboose1839 chantier1849 hangar1852 caban1866 shebang1867 humpy1873 shack1878 hale1885 bach1927 jhuggi1927 favela1961 hokkie1973 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > types of room generally > [noun] > small room parrockOE cellc1300 cabin1362 parclosea1470 camerelle?c1475 crib1600 narrow cell1636 pigeonhole1703 closet1728 box1773 cuddy1793 cubby-hole1842 roomlet1855 cubby1868 cubby-house1880 cwtch1890 cellule1894 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 (2nd issue) iii. i. 9 Why rather sleepe liest thou in smoaky cribbes..Then in the perfumde chambers of the great. 1858 A. H. Clough Amours de Voyage in Atlantic Monthly Feb. 419 The world..Whithersoever we turn, still is the same narrow crib. 1862 C. R. Thatcher Dunedin Songster No. 1. 5 The weather and time had so peppered that tumbledown crib, I declare. 1886 W. Besant Children of Gibeon II. ii. vi. 48 There were no confessional cribs and no candles. 1887 H. Caine Deemster II. xxviii. 282 Shutting himself in this dusty crib, the Bishop drew from under the bed a glass-covered case. 1929 W. S. Smyth Bonzer Jones xvii. 213 ‘Here's my crib,’ he announced. 1947 ‘A. P. Gaskell’ Big Game 88 If it's fine George will be taking them up to his crib. 1962 Guardian 21 July 6/4 An index to social status in New Zealand..is possession of the seaside bach (in Southland, the crib). 1963 N.Z. Truth 24 Sept. ‘You know my sea~side summer bach?’ ‘Bach? What the South Islanders call a crib?’ 1970 D. M. Davin Not here, not Now ii. ix. 115 Then back to the crib again, set off the road in the bush. b. Thieves' slang. A dwelling-house, shop, public-house, etc. to crack a crib: see crack v. 11. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > place of resort > [noun] to-draughta1400 repair1423 repairing1487 resorting place1525 common house1537 resort1565 place (also house) of repairc1595 purlieu1611 howff1711 crib1819 joint1821 hang-out1852 costa1964 1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 165 Crib, a house, sometimes applied to shops. 1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist I. xix. 316 Now, my dear, about that crib at Chertsey. 1844 J. T. J. Hewlett Parsons & Widows II. xxii. 67 The grocer's crib, as he called it. c. A lock-up; a bridewell. local. ΚΠ 1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words 1879 in Shropshire Word-bk. d. slang (chiefly U.S.). A saloon, ‘low dive’, or brothel. Also crib-house, crib-joint. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > tavern or public house > low drinking-house sot's-hof1532 bousing ken1567 fuddling-school1680 sot-bay1707 night-cellar1729 sot-hole1755 lush-ken1790 lush-crib1819 Tom and Jerry shop1824 Tom and Jerry1836 deadfall1837 jerry1851 shoful1851 cribc1865 bucket-shop1875 barrel-house1883 lushing-ken1883 shebang1901 barrel shop1904 blood house1913 smoke joint1931 shypoo1936 smoke-shop1937 dive bar1974 c1865 B. A. Baker Glance at N.Y. 23 Let's take a drink; there's a crib open. 1882 Sydney Slang Dict. 3/2 Drum, or crib, house of ill repute. 1901 ‘J. Flynt’ World of Graft 219 Crib, gambling dive. 1926 J. Black You can't Win (1927) xiv. 199 I'll make the cribs myself. I'm dynamite with them old brums in the cribs. 1930 J. Dos Passos 42nd Parallel 320 The little lighted cribhouses. 1932 B. De Voto Mark Twain's Amer. vi. 124 The palaces blended with scores of dance halls..parlor houses, cribs. 1958 P. Gammond Decca Bk. Jazz iii. 42 Forced into the dives and crib-joints of the red-light district of New Orleans. 4. figurative. A ‘berth’, ‘place’, situation. slang. ΚΠ 1865 J. Hatton Bitter Sweets vii It's a snug crib this. 5. a. A small rectangular bed for a child, with barred or latticed sides. (Sometimes loosely = cradle.) ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > types of bed > [noun] > cot or cradle cradlec1000 cader?c1225 crete1340 cunablesa1549 rocker1566 wicker1646 crib1649 cather?1748 cunabula1774 cot1813 co-sleeper1997 1649 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 220 One trundle bedstead and an halfe trundle bedstead, a cribb. 1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Crib..6. A small frame for a child to sleep in. 1832 H. Martineau Weal & Woe vii. 86 Fergus was kneeling at the foot of the child's crib. 1857 W. Collins Dead Secret I. iii. ii. 157 Having a nurse to engage and a crib to buy. †b. transferred. Child, baby. Obsolete. Cf. cribber n. 1. ΚΠ 1702 Lady M. Coke in Cowper MSS. (Hist. MSS. Comm.) II. 447 Your Crib is well, and all are yours. 1702 Lady M. Coke in Cowper MSS. (Hist. MSS. Comm.) II. 453 Inquire me out a nursery maid, because your crib is weaning. 6. figurative. †a. A close-fisted person, one who keeps a tight hold of what he has. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > [noun] > niggard or mean person nithinga1225 chinch?a1300 nigc1300 chincher1333 shut-purse1340 niggardc1384 haynec1386 nigona1400 pinchera1425 pinchpenny?c1425 pynepenya1450 pelt1511 chincherda1529 churl1535 pinchbeck1538 carl?1542 penny-father1549 nipfarthing1566 nipper?1573 holdfast1576 pinchpence1577 pinch fistc1580 pinchfart1592 shit-sticks1598 clunchfist1606 puckfist1606 sharp-nose1611 spare-good1611 crib1622 hog grubber?1626 dry-fist1633 clusterfist1652 niggardling1654 frummer1659 scrat1699 sting-hum1699 nipcheese1785 pincha1825 screw1825 wire-drawer1828 close-fist1861 penny-pincher1875 nip-skin1876 parer1887 pinch-plum1892 cheapskate1899 meanie1902 tightwad1906 stinge1914 penny-peeler1925 mean1938 stiff1967 1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue i. 251 That his wife be close-fisted, a very Crib. b. dialect, Australian, and New Zealand. Food, provisions; a light meal or snack; a piece of bread, cake, etc. Frequently attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > [noun] meateOE eatOE foodOE fodderOE dietc1230 gista1290 victual1303 victualsa1375 preya1382 feedinga1398 pasturea1398 viancea1400 viandsc1400 livingc1405 meatingc1425 vitalyc1440 vianda1450 cates1461 vivers1536 viandry1542 viander1543 gut-matter1549 peck1567 belly-cheer1579 appast1580 manchet1583 chat1584 belly-metal1590 repasture1598 cibaries1599 belly-timber1607 belly-cheat1608 peckage1610 victuallage1622 keeping1644 vivresa1650 crib1652 prog1655 grub1659 beef1661 fooding1663 teething1673 eatablea1687 sunket1686 yam1788 chow-chow1795 keep1801 feed1818 grubbing1819 patter1824 ninyam1826 nyam1828 grubbery1831 tack1834 kai1845 mungaree1846 scoff1846 foodstuff1847 chuck1850 muckamuck1852 tuck1857 tucker1858 hash1865 nosh1873 jock1879 cake flour1881 chow1886 nosebag1888 stodge1890 food aid1900 tackle1900 munga1907 scarf1932 grubber1959 the world > food and drink > food > meal > [noun] > light meal or snacks nuncheonc1260 morsela1382 refection?a1439 mixtumc1490 bever1500 banquet1509 collation1525 snatch1570 beverage1577 a little something1577 anders-meat1598 four-hours1637 watering1637 refreshment1639 snap1642 luncheona1652 crib1652 prandicle1656 munchin1657 baita1661 unch1663 afternooning1678 whet1688 nacket1694 merenda1740 rinfresco1745 bagging?1746 snack1757 coffee1774 second breakfast1775 nummit1777 stay-stomach1800 damper1804 eleven o'clock1805 noonshine1808 by-bit1819 morning1819 four1823 four o'clock1825 lunch1829 stay-bit1833 picnic meal1839 elevens1849 Tommy1864 picnic tea1869 dinnerette1872 merienda1880 elevenses1887 light bite1887 soldier's supper1893 mug-up1902 tray1914 café complet1933 nosha1941 namkeen1942 snax1947 snackette1952 chaat1954 ploughman's lunch1957 munchie1959 playlunch1960 short-eat1962 lite bite1965 munchie1971 ploughman1975 aperitivo2002 the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > piece of bread > [noun] breadeOE crib1652 toke1843 1652 R. Brome Joviall Crew ii. sig. F3 Here's Pannum and Lap, and good Poplars of Yarrum, To fill up the Crib, and to comfort the Quarron. 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. (at cited word) Haste ye, and gi'e me ma..crib, Guid-wife. 1872 Notes & Queries 4th Ser. 9 47/1 The gift..was generally a small cake..and was called the ‘christening crib’—a crib of bread or cake being a provincialism for a bit of bread, &c. 1880 M. A. Courtney W. Cornwall Words in M. A. Courtney & T. Q. Couch Gloss. Words Cornwall 15/2 Crib, a crust of bread; fragments of meat. ‘Eat up your cribs.’ 1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 124 Crib...3. A miner's luncheon. 1889 Daily News 4 Apr. 4/8 In the pocket of each of the garments was a pasty and a ‘crib’ (apparently a small loaf). 1904 ‘G. B. Lancaster’ Sons o' Men 159 Sereld..growled because someone had spilt tobacco-ash into his crib—which is bushman for dinner. 1908 Westm. Gaz. 13 May 6/1 Half an hour's ‘crib’ time [at Blackball, N.Z.] is also granted. 1926 K. S. Prichard Working Bullocks xi. 108 Red picked up his crib-bag. 1928 J. Devanny Dawn Beloved xxx. 273 He stopped..to hang up his towel and crib tin. 1942 A. L. Rowse Cornish Childhood ii. 30 He used to take it to work with him and at crib-time (i.e. lunch-time) would entertain his fellows with it. 1947 A. Vogt in D. M. Davin N.Z. Short Stories (1953) 364 Ben went to work [in the bush] each day like the rest of the men, with his crib and oil-skin. 1954 Coast to Coast 1953–4 37 Jacques was holding out his crib. ‘Time to eat.’.. Crib over, the men rolled cigarettes. 1971 J. Turner Stone Dormitory iii. 30 ‘Just come in for me crib. It's time.’.. ‘It's ready for you, Tom,’ she said, putting the bread and cheese and tea before him. II. A receptacle for storage, and related uses. †7. a. A wickerwork basket, pannier, or the like. In quot. 1648 a bag. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > basket > [noun] teanela700 windlec725 spertc975 kipec1000 leapc1000 willyc1000 basketa1300 coopa1300 hoppera1300 ripc1300 skepc1340 coffinc1380 criba1387 skippetc1450 corfc1483 wisket1542 prickle1543 cleave1577 serpet1615 wicker1646 bascaud1647 shapeta1657 fender1682 canister1697 kist1724 calathus1753 voider1788 wick1802 skip1816 maeshie1822 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1872) IV. 353 Þey putte hym in a litel cribbe i-schape as a litel bote. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. cxxviii. 1376 Fiscella is a litel euelong cribbe ouþer a panyer, yweue wiþ smale ȝerdes of wiþye oþer of persche. 1648 W. Davenant Vacation in London With canvas crib To girdle tied..Where worms are put, which must small fish Betray at night to earthen dish. 1676 J. Worlidge Vinetum Britannicum 90 You may have a Basket or Crib..and put Straw round it in the inside. b. The bin n. used in hop-picking. ΚΠ c1830 Mrs. Sherwood in Houlston Tracts III. lxxii. 10 Come along this way to the crib (that is, the sheet or cloth into which the hop blossoms are cut). †8. A crate or measure of glass. Obsolete. Cf. crate n.¹ 2b, cradle n. 6c.) ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > glass and glass-like materials > [noun] > glass > measure or quantity of sheaf1402 wisp1470 way1558 web1558 crib1688 crate1823 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 385/1 A Load of Glass is two Kribbs; a Krib is 100 or 150 Foot of cut Glass. 9. Salt-making. An apparatus like a hay-rack in which the salt is placed to drain after boiling. ? Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > salt manufacture > [noun] > equipment pail1481 walling-lead1611 walma1661 Neptune1662 loot1669 ship1669 clearerc1682 cribc1682 barrow1686 hovel1686 leach-trough1686 salt-pan1708 sun pond1708 sun pan1724 scrape-pan1746 taplin1748 drab1753 room1809 thorn house1853 thorn-wall1853 fore-heater1880 pike1884 trunk1885 c1682 J. Collins Salt & Fishery 54 The Liquor that Dreynes from the Salt in the Cribs is a sort of Bittern. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Crib in the English Salt Works..These cribs are like hay-racks, wide at the top, and tapering to a narrow bottom, with wooden ribs..placed so close, that the salt cannot easily fall through them. 10. a. A wickerwork contrivance for catching salmon; a cruive n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > fish-trap > [noun] > basket bow-neta1000 leapc1000 weel1256 willow1385 pichea1398 cruive14.. creel1457 coop1469 butt1533 hive1533 wilger1542 fish-pota1555 pota1555 loup1581 leap weel1601 willy1602 putt1610 leap-head1611 weir1611 putcher1781 fish-coop1803 fishing box1861 crib1873 1873 Act 36 & 37 Victoria c. 71 Sched. iii License Duties..For each..weir..box, crib, or cruive. 1873 Act 36 & 37 Victoria c. 71 §17 Any legal fishing mill dam not having a crib, box, or cruive. b. The enclosure for trapped fish in a pound-net. U.S. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > fish-keeping, farming, or breeding > [noun] > fish-weir or -garth weir839 fish-weirc1000 yair1178 fishgarth1454 eel-bed1483 water frith1584 frith1602 garth1609 fish-lock1661 crawl1682 fish-yard1685 fishing-pen1791 eelery1854 fishing-weir1870 crib1873 ark1883 kiddle1891 1873 Rep. U.S. Fish Commission i. 264 The pound-nets..have several parts, termed the ‘leader’, the ‘heart’, the ‘pot’, ‘bowl’, or ‘crib’, and the ‘tunnel’. a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 231/1 Crib (Fishing), the bowl or pound of a Pound Net. 11. A framework of bars or spars for strengthening, support, etc.; see quots. Cf. cradle n. 6. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > support > [noun] > that which supports > supporting framework cradle1379 cratch1382 frame1388 brandreth1483 scaffold?1523 crate1526 bone1542 framework1578 anatomy1591 scaffoldage1609 brake1623 truss1654 skeletona1658 carcass1663 box frame1693 crib1693 scaffolding1789 staddlea1800 gantry1810 cradling1823 potence1832 ossaturea1878 tower1970 the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > [noun] > means of protection or defence > device or contrivance to protect a thing or person > framework cradle1561 crib1693 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > [noun] > slip on which ships built or repaired > framework on which vessel rests stocks1422 trestle1612 cradle1627 boat cradle1829 gridiron1846 skid1856 grid1867 crib1883 1693 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 17 895 Preserving the Banks of Rivers, by building Wings or Cribs to break the force of the Water. 1708 S. Molyneux in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 26 38 A large Tub..of Wood inclosed with a Crib made of Brick and Lime. 1883 F. M. Crawford Mr. Isaacs iii. 49 As the crib holds the ship in her place while she is building. 12. Mining. A framework of timber, etc., lining a shaft, to prevent the earth from caving in, or water from trickling through. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > mining equipment > [noun] > pit supports yoking1653 set1830 crib1839 tub1839 wedging crib1839 cribbing1841 ring crib1849 tack1849 tymp1883 1839 Ann. Reg. 41 It was necessary to construct what is termed a crib; that is a cylinder corresponding to the dimensions of the shaft. 1849 G. C. Greenwell Gloss. Terms Coal Trade Northumberland & Durham 19 Common cribs are circles of wood, usually oak, from 4 to 6 inches square, and are used to support the sides of a pit when the stone is bad. 1881 Pop. Sc. Monthly XIX. 28 A shaft or crib is sunk..to prevent the sides from caving in. 13. A rectangular frame of logs or beams strongly fastened together and secured under water to form a pier, dam, etc.; sometimes including the superstructure raised upon it. (Canadian and U.S.) ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > [noun] > anything built in or round water > framework of crib1816 1816 [see crib-dam n. at Compounds 2]. 1867 Harper's Weekly 20 Apr. 252/4 The flood-gates of the ‘crib’ were opened. 1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Crib..6. A structure of logs to be anchored with stones. Cribs are used for bridge-piers, ice-breakers, dams, etc. 1881 Proc. Inst. Civil Engineers 63 268 (Cribwork in Canada) Cribs are merely open or close boxes, made of timbers strongly framed together. 1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 10 Oct. 7/2 Fourteen men were employed at a crib in the lake at the outer end of the tunnel. 14. A small raft of boards or staves to be floated down a small stream, a number of which are made up into a large raft. (Canadian and U.S.) ΚΠ 1776 C. Carroll Jrnl. (1845) 47 The smaller rafts are called cribs. 1813 W. Johnson Reports X Light cribs of boards would float over the dam in safety. 1880 Lumberman's Gaz. 28 Jan. When the streams get wide enough the ‘sticks’ are made into ‘cribs’, and these, again, are made up into ‘rafts’..Cribs are formed of about 20 sticks of timber fastened between two logs called ‘floats’. 15. A bin or place with sparred or slatted sides for storing Indian corn (= corn-crib n. b); also for salt and other commodities. U.S. ΚΠ 1823 J. D. Hunter Mem. Captivity 258 The corn [is preserved] in cribs, constructed of small poles and bark of trees. 1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Crib..5. A small building, raised on posts, for storing Indian corn. 1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Crib..4. A box or bin for storing grain, salt, etc. III. Senses relating to games. 16. Cards. a. The set of cards made up of two (or one) thrown out from each player's hand, and given to the dealer, in the game of cribbage. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > cribbage > [noun] > cards given to dealer crib1680 1680 C. Cotton Compl. Gamester (ed. 2) viii Sometimes it so happens that he is both bilkt in hand and crib. ?1870 F. Hardy & J. R. Ware Mod. Hoyle 79 [article Cribbage] The players..each throw out two [cards] for the crib, face downwards..The four cards constituting ‘crib’ belong to the dealer. ?1870 F. Hardy & J. R. Ware Mod. Hoyle 80 [article Cribbage] Having counted his hand, the dealer proceeds in like manner to count his crib. b. Also, short for cribbage n. (colloquial) ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > cribbage > [noun] cribbage1641 crib1885 1885 Standard 3 Apr. 2/6 He had played..at ‘whist’ and ‘crib’. IV. Senses from crib v. 17. The act of ‘cribbing’; a petty theft. (See crib v. 7.) rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > petty theft or pilfering > [noun] micherya1393 mitchinga1393 picking1402 purloining1417 pilferc1425 pickery1460 pilfering1548 filching1567 lurching1570 pilfery1573 petty larceny1578 filching-tradea1592 prigging1591 filchery1607 nimming1607 sneaking-budge1699 pilferage1732 cabbaging1774 weeding1819 pilferment1823 crib1855 filch1877 souveniring1919 1855 R. Browning Fra Lippo Lippi in Men & Women I. 42 To confess Their cribs of barrel-droppings, candle-ends. 18. Something ‘cribbed’ or taken without acknowledgement, as a passage from an author; a plagiarism. (colloquial) ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > plagiarism > [noun] > instance of plagiarya1643 pinch1757 plagiarism1780 crib1834 1834 T. Medwin Angler in Wales I. 207 That's a crib from Waller, I declare. 1876 A. M. Fairbairn in Contemp. Rev. June 130 It was a crib from himself. 19. A translation of a classic or other work in a foreign language, for the illegitimate use of students. (colloquial) ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > study > subject or object of study > [noun] > crib crib1828 cab1849 cabbage1870 the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > translation > [noun] > used at school Latinc1500 version1711 pony1827 crib1828 paving1877 trot1924 1828 E. Bulwer-Lytton Pelham I. ii. 11 I could read Greek fluently, and even translate it through the medium of the Latin version technically called a crib. 1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. III. vi. 97 Schoolboys caught by their master using a crib. 20. A complaint, grumble. colloquial. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > discontent or dissatisfaction > state of complaining > [noun] > a complaint plainta1275 groinc1374 complaintc1385 murmura1393 grutchc1460 plainc1475 yammer?a1513 puling?1529 objecting1552 obmurmuration1571 regratea1586 repine1593 grumblinga1616 grumble1623 dissatisfactionc1640 obmurmuring1642 rumbling1842 natter1866 grouch1895 beef1900 holler1901 squawk1909 moan1911 yip1911 grouse1918 gripe1934 crib1943 bitch1945 drip1945 kvetch1957 1943 J. L. Hunt & A. G. Pringle Service Slang 26 People have their own pet cribs. Compounds C1. General attributive. (See sense 13.) crib timber-work n. ΚΠ 1884 Harper's Mag. Sept. 621/2 Sluices..are constructed through a mass of crib timber-work. C2. crib-bite v. (intransitive) to have the practice or habit of crib-biting. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > habits and actions of horse > [verb (intransitive)] > practise crib-biting tickc1721 crib-bite1844 1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 229 He continued to crib-bite or wind-suck. crib-biter n. a horse addicted to crib-biting; also figurative; also, a grumbler. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > discontent or dissatisfaction > state of complaining > [noun] > one who complains grucchildc1230 grutchera1250 groinera1382 musera1382 plainerc1400 plaintiff?a1439 fretter?1504 complainant1525 complainer1526 repiner1551 grudger1552 moaner1628 grumbler1633 querulist1647 maunderer1653 growler1753 grumbletonian1773 smellfungus1807 crib-biter1809 expostulatora1834 squinny1849 groaner1876 grouser1885 squealer1889 gruntler1893 grump1900 grouch1901 screamer1902 Moaning Minnie1934 narker1937 binder1944 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > habits and actions of horse > [noun] > wind-sucking or crib-biting > horse given to tickerc1721 crib-biter1809 wind-sucker1825 1809 Sporting Mag. 34 190 A bay horse..found to be a crib-biter. 1832 F. Marryat Newton Forster III. iii. 39 I have lately used iron pens, for I'm a devil of a crib-biter. 1860 J. C. Hotten Dict. Slang (ed. 2) 124 Crib biter, an inveterate grumbler; properly said of a horse which has this habit, a sign of its bad digestion. crib-biting n. the vice or morbid habit of seizing the manger (or other object) with the teeth and at the same time noisily drawing in the breath (wind-sucking). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > habits and actions of horse > [noun] > wind-sucking or crib-biting tickc1721 crib-biting1831 wind-sucking1844 cribbing1864 1831 Ann. Reg. 25 Horses had the habit of crib-biting in very different degrees. crib-breakwater n. U.S. a breakwater made of cribwork. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > flood or flooding > structures protecting from water or flooding > [noun] > breakwater countermure1610 breaker1661 water-breakera1689 breakwater1769 floating harbour1841 water break1875 crib-breakwater1879 wave screen1883 stockade1891 Stabit1962 1879 Rep. Chief of Engineers, U.S. Army II. 1588 (Knight) Crib breakwater. crib-bridge n. a bridge whose piers are formed of cribs (see 13). ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > other means of passage or access > [noun] > bridge > bridge of other specific construction pile bridge1758 thrusting-bridge1761 frame bridge1809 lock bridge1817 lattice-bridge1838 tubular bridge1850 girder-bridge1854 tubular1861 trestle-bridge1867 deck-bridge1874 transporter-bridge1893 gullet-bridge1896 crib-bridge1899 Bailey bridge1944 1899 Westm. Gaz. 8 Dec. 2/1 What military engineers call a ‘crib’ bridge. crib-cracker n. slang a burglar (see 3b); so . ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > burglar > [noun] housebreakera1400 burglary1533 burglar1541 burglarer1598 mill1607 mill-ken1667 hoister1708 crack1749 cracksman1819 screwsman1819 screwer1831 crib-cracker1879 cracker1886 key worker1895 houseman1904 home invader1907 in and out man1961 1879 Punch 3 May 201/1 A bludgeon as big As a crib-cracker's nobby persuader. 1883 G. R. Sims How Poor Live ii. 10 His talents as a ‘cribcracker’, and his adventures as a pickpocket. 1906 Daily Chron. 5 Dec. 6/6 The house is adequately protected against burglars and is proof against the amateur crib-cracker. crib-cracking n. ΚΠ 1852 Punch 9 Oct. 161/1 He..From cly~faking to crib-cracking turned. crib-dam n. U.S. a dam formed of cribs. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > lake > pool > [noun] > artificially confined water > contrivance for impounding water > dam > types of mill-dam1182 warrant1406 pond head1465 coffer-dam1736 batardeau1767 gather-dam1768 frame dam1774 crib-dam1816 shutter-dama1884 suddc1900 needle gate1909 check-dam1936 gravity dam1940 1816 Niles' Reg. 9 Suppl. 164/2 These dams are built with timber, in the manner of crib dams, secured to the rocks below with iron bolts. 1877 Rep. Chief of Ordnance, U.S.A. 354 Crib dam. crib-muzzle n. a muzzle worn by a horse to prevent crib-biting. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > other gear trainel1283 forelock1467 trannet1504 lungec1721 allonge1773 long rein1775 housing1809 bandage1828 ankle boot1835 setting muzzle1835 nosebag1839 foot rope1854 breast-cord1861 safe1875 snubbing-post1875 toggery1877 crib-muzzlea1884 a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 231/1 Crib muzzle (Manége), a muzzle used to correct the equine habit of cribbing. crib-rail n. a transverse member of the frame of a railway coach. ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > railway wagon or carriage > parts of frame of under-frame1855 headstock1869 cant-rail1871 sill1874 transom1891 sole-bar1930 crib-rail1958 1958 Engineering 14 Mar. 344/1 The body pillars, cantrail and cribrails are in 12 s.w.g. crib-strap n. (see quot.). ΚΠ 1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Crib-strap (Menage), a neck-throttler for crib-biting and wind sucking horses. cribwork n. work consisting or formed of cribs (sense 13); also attributive. ΚΠ 1873 F. Robertson Engin. Notes 56 Cribwork..consists of logs notched on to each other in layers at right angles. 1881 Proc. Inst. Civil Engineers 63 271 A cribwork pier is easily ripped up and removed by an ordinary spoon dredge. Draft additions April 2002 crib sheet n. = cheat sheet n. at cheat n.¹ Additions; a short digest or summary of the salient information on a particular topic (such as on a single sheet of paper), for quick, easy assimilation. ΚΠ a1940 ‘N. West’ Western Union Boy in Novels & Other Writings (1997) 425 He..decided to take no chances, so he went into his English 43 exam with a crib sheet in his pocket. The exam was easy and he didn't have to use the crib sheet. 1964 in Jrnl. Higher Educ. 37 (1966) 261 In addition, he would make up a special location index which tells him precisely where the various crib sheets have been placed. 1988 Guardian (Nexis) 13 Feb. I am always grateful to BMW (UK) for providing a crib-sheet with its test cars, listing what options are fitted and what they cost. 2001 Time 21 May 22/1 Here's a crib sheet on the worst terrorist attack in American history... How the government won its conviction... What evidence did the jury never see?.. Could it have been a wider conspiracy? Draft additions June 2013 crib death n. chiefly North American = sudden infant death syndrome n. at sudden adj., adv., and n. Additions; an instance or case of this; cf. cot death n. at cot n.⁴ Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1944 Jrnl. Pediatrics 25 374 The problem of sudden death in infants previously thought to be well (‘crib death’) has not as yet been completely solved. 1989 R. Bell Special Calling iii. 44 Our eight-month-old son, Bobby, had died in his carriage during his afternoon nap. Our pediatrician called it a crib death. 2003 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 13 July ii. 2/1 Years ago, pediatricians recommended parents put their babies on their backs to sleep because of concerns about crib death. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022). cribv. Brit. /krɪb/, U.S. /krɪb/ Etymology: < crib n. †1. intransitive ? To feed at a crib. (In quot. a1500 humorously of persons.) Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xii. 114 Syrs, let vs cryb furst, For oone thyng or oder. 2. a. transitive. To shut up as in a crib or small compartment; to confine within a small space or narrow limits; to hamper. (In modern use generally as an echo of Shakespeare; cf. cabin v. 3.) ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > restriction of free action > restrict in free action [verb (transitive)] bindc1200 hamper?a1366 chain1377 coarctc1400 prison?a1425 tether?a1505 fetter1526 imprisona1533 strait1533 swaddle1539 measure1560 shacklea1568 to tie up1570 manacle1577 straitena1586 hopple1586 immew16.. scant1600 cabina1616 criba1616 trammela1616 copse1617 cramp1625 cloister1627 incarcerate1640 hidebind1642 strait-lace1662 perstringe1679 hough-band1688 cabin1780 pin1795 strait jacket1814 peg1832 befetter1837 to tie the hands of1866 corset1935 society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restriction or limitation > restrict or limit [verb (transitive)] > in free action bind971 hamper?a1366 chain1377 coarctc1400 prison?a1425 tether?a1505 fetter1526 imprisona1533 strait1533 swaddle1539 measure1560 shacklea1568 to tie up1570 manacle1577 straitena1586 hopple1586 immew16.. scant1600 cabina1616 criba1616 trammela1616 copse1617 cramp1625 cloister1627 incarcerate1640 hidebind1642 to box up1659 strait-lace1662 perstringe1679 hough-band1688 cabin1780 pin1795 strait jacket1814 peg1832 befetter1837 to tie the hands of1866 hog-tie1924 corset1935 a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iii. iv. 23 Now I am cabin'd, crib'd, confin'd, bound in. View more context for this quotation 1743 E. Poston Pratler (1747) I. 151 How must that which is boundless..be confin'd and cribb'd up within the narrow Limits of my..finite Capacity! 1826 T. De Quincey Gallery German Prose Classics: Lessing in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 730 The mind of Lessing was not cribbed and cabined within the narrow sphere of others. 1876 J. S. Blackie Songs Relig. & Life 34 Vainly the narrow wit of narrow men Within the walls which priestly lips have blest..Would crib thy presence. b. To lock up, imprison. local. (crib n. 3c.) ΚΠ 1849 C. Brontë Shirley III. ix. 212 They should be arrested, cribbed, tried, and brought in for Botany Bay. c. To place (Indian corn, etc.) in a crib. U.S. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > storage or preservation of crops > [verb (transitive)] > gather into barn or granary > crib crib1719 1719 J. Hempstead Diary 23 Oct. (1998) 91 I went to Stonington & Stephen to Cribb the Corn. 1745 J. MacSparran Diary 41 Harry finished cribbing ye corn. 1779 in Narragansett Hist. Reg. (1882) Oct. 95 Cribbed our corn. 1831 J. M. Peck Guide for Emigrants ii. 151 The value of the crop, then, before it is cribbed, is one hundred and twenty-five dollars. 1874 E. Eggleston Circuit Rider i. 17 Now, boys, crib your corn. 1939 These are our Lives (Federal Writers' Project, U.S.) 256 The buyers would crib eight and ten thousand bushel of wheat and corn. 3. intransitive. To lie as in a crib. (crib n. 5) Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of lying down or reclining > lie down or recline [verb (intransitive)] > as in a crib crib1661 1661 J. Gauden Anti Baal-Berith: Binding of Covenant 35 Who sought to make..Bishops to crib in a Presbyterian trundle-bed. 4. transitive. To furnish with cribs. (crib n. 1.) ΚΠ 1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (1681) v. §2. 67 A large Sheep-house for the housing of Sheep in winter, which may be Sheep-cribbed round about and in the middle too, to fother them therein. 5. To furnish with a crib or framework of timber. (crib n. 11 – 13.) ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > support > [verb (transitive)] > with a framework crib1861 cradle1880 1861 Times 29 Aug. The [oil-] wells are sunk and cribbed to a depth of from 40 to 60 feet. 1862 Times 21 Jan. The shaft of the [coal-] pit was cribbed round with oak timber. 6. To make up (timber) into cribs or small rafts. U.S. (crib n. 14.) ΚΠ 1876 Gen. Laws Minnesota c. 89. §1 Any person who may do..any manual labour in cutting,..cribbing or towing any logs, or timber in this state. 7. colloquial. To pilfer, purloin, steal; to appropriate furtively (a small part of anything). [Probably originally Thieves' slang, connected with sense 7 of the noun.] ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > petty theft or pilfering > pilfer [verb (transitive)] mitcha1393 pelfa1400 purloinc1475 prowl?1529 finger1530 pilfer1532 lurchc1565 filch1567 filch1574 proloyne1581 nim1606 hook1615 truff1718 snaffle1725 crib1735 pettifog1759 magg1762 niffle1785 cabbage1793 weed1811 nibble1819 cab1825 smouch1826 snuga1859 mooch1862 attract1891 souvenir1897 rat1906 snipe1909 promote1918 salvage1918 smooch1941 1735 W. Pardon Dyche's New Gen. Eng. Dict. Crib, to with-hold, keep back, pinch, or thieve a Part out of Money given to lay out for Necessaries. a1777 S. Foote Nabob (1778) i. 22 A brace of birds and a hare, that I cribbed this morning out of a basket of game. 1795 Hull Advertiser 31 Oct. 4/2 We would never have cribb'd your papers. 1821 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 1 Dec. 1337 Bits of ground cribbed..at different times, from the forest. 1862 Mrs. H. Wood Mrs. Halliburton's Troubles ii. xii. 204 We crib the time from play-hours. 1884 Times (Weekly ed.) 17 Oct. 2/3 How many Tory seats he can crib there. absolute.1760 C. Johnstone Chrysal I. ii. viii. 194 Cribbing from the till.a1839 W. M. Praed Poems (1864) II. 8 Both of old were known to crib, And both were very apt to fib! 8. colloquial. To take or copy (a passage, a piece of translation, etc.) without acknowledgement, and use as one's own; to plagiarize. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > plagiarism > plagiarize [verb (transitive)] usurpc1412 steal1544 plagiarize1660 book-pad1685 pirate1706 cabbage1773 crib1778 lift1885 plunder1896 society > education > learning > study > [verb (intransitive)] > crib crib1778 pony1847 society > education > learning > study > [verb (transitive)] > crib cabbage1773 crib1778 pony1847 1778 J. Home Alfred Prol. And crib the prologue from the bill of fare. 1844 J. T. J. Hewlett Parsons & Widows III. xlvii. 186 Flogged for cribbing another boy's verses. 1862 G. A. Sala Accepted Addr. 168 Antiquarian anecdotes (cribbed from Hone, etc.). absolute.1862 J. Skelton Nugæ Criticæ vi. 266 I rather suspect that Homer..cribbed without..compunction from every old ballad that came in his way.1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 19 Oct. 3/1 At school..it was dishonourable to ‘crib’ because it would be to unfairly injure..others. 9. a. intransitive. Of horses: To practise crib-biting. ΚΠ 1864 in Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. 1892 Field 26 Nov. 820/2 No horse would crib after using this strap. b. To complain, to grumble. colloquial. Cf. crib-biter n. at crib n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > discontent or dissatisfaction > state of complaining > complain [verb (intransitive)] murkeOE misspeakOE yomer971 chidea1000 murkenOE grutch?c1225 mean?a1300 hum13.. plainta1325 gruntc1325 plainc1325 musea1382 murmurc1390 complain1393 contrary1393 flitec1400 pinea1425 grummec1430 aggrudge1440 hoinec1440 mutterc1450 grudge1461 channerc1480 grunch1487 repine1529 storm?1553 expostulate1561 grumblea1586 gruntle1591 chunter1599 swagger1599 maunder1622 orp1634 objurgate1642 pitter1672 yelp1706 yammer1794 natter1804 murgeon1808 groan1816 squawk1875 jower1879 grouse1887 beef1888 to whip the cat1892 holler1904 yip1907 peeve1912 grouch1916 nark1916 to sound off1918 create1919 moana1922 crib1925 tick1925 bitch1930 gripe1932 bind1942 drip1942 kvetchc1950 to rag on1979 wrinch2011 1925 in E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 1957 L. P. Hartley Hireling xi. 90 She calls on the neighbours, she's out half the time and doesn't answer the telephone, and when I start cribbing she just laughs. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.OEv.a1500
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