chiefly NAmer a child's cot with barred or slatted sides

archaic a baby's cradle

a cattle stall

a manger or rack for animal fodder

Brit a model of the Nativity scene, with the infant Christ lying in a manger: compare crèche (2)

a literal translation of a text, esp one used surreptitiously by students

a work that has been plagiarized

Aus, NZ, informal a snack

heavy timber framework used in constructing foundations, etc

to copy (somebody else's work) without permission or acknowledgment

archaic to steal (something)

Child … cribbed the necklace, hid it, played with it, cut the string, and swallowed a bead — Dickens

archaic to confine or restrain (a person, etc)

But now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in — Shakespeare

to copy from a crib or from a classmate, etc

Brit, dated to grumble

She's out half the time and doesn't answer the telephone, and when I start cribbing she just laughs — L P Hartley