crib
IPA: krˈɪb
noun
- (US) A baby’s bed with high, often slatted, often moveable sides, suitable for a child who has outgrown a cradle or bassinet.
- (Britain) A bed for a child older than a baby.
- (nautical) A small sleeping berth in a packet ship or other small vessel
- A wicker basket.
- A manger, a feeding trough for animals elevated off the earth or floor, especially one for fodder such as hay.
- The baby Jesus and the manger in a creche or nativity scene, consisting of statues of Mary, Joseph and various other characters such as the magi.
- A bin for drying or storing grain, as with a corn crib.
- A small room or covered structure, especially one of rough construction, used for storage or penning animals.
- A confined space, as with a cage or office-cubicle
- (obsolete) A job, a position; (Britain) an appointment.
- A hovel, a roughly constructed building best suited to the shelter of animals but used for human habitation.
- A boxy structure traditionally built of heavy wooden timbers, to support an existing structure from below, as with a mineshaft or a building being raised off its foundation in preparation for being moved; see cribbing.
- (usually in the plural) A collection of quotes or references for use in speaking, for assembling a written document, or as an aid to a project of some sort; a crib sheet.
- (obsolete) A minor theft, extortion or embezzlement, with or without criminal intent.
- (cribbage) The card game cribbage.
- (cribbage) The cards discarded by players and used by the dealer.
- (cryptography) A known piece of information corresponding to a section of encrypted text, that is then used to work out the remaining sections.
- (southern New Zealand) A small holiday home, often near a beach and of simple construction.
- (now chiefly Australia, New Zealand) A snack or packed lunch, especially as taken to work to eat during a break.
- (Canada) A small raft made of timber.
- (UK, obsolete, thieves' cant) The stomach.
- A literal translation, usually of a work originally in Latin or Ancient Greek.
- (slang) A cheat sheet or past test used by students; crib sheet.
- (slang, sometimes African-American Vernacular) One’s residence, house or dwelling place, or usual place of resort.
verb
- (transitive) To place or confine in a crib.
- To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.
- (transitive) To collect one or more passages and/or references for use in a speech, written document or as an aid for some task; to create a crib sheet.
- (transitive, informal) To plagiarize; to copy; to cheat.
- (intransitive) To install timber supports, as with cribbing.
- (transitive, archaic) To steal or embezzle.
- (India) To complain, to grumble
- To crowd together, or to be confined, as if in a crib or in narrow accommodations.
- (intransitive, of a horse) To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind.
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