crib

UK /kɹɪb/ US /kɹɪb/
noun 5verb 5

Definitions

noun

1

A baby’s bed with high, often slatted, often moveable sides, suitable for a child who has outgrown a cradle or bassinet.

In two minutes I was kneeling by the child’s crib, and Sandy was dispatching servants here, there, and everywhere, all over the palace. I took in the situation almost at a glance -- membranous croup!

2

A bed for a child older than a baby.

a day or two afterwards I learned that Miss Temple, on returning to her own room at dawn, had found me laid in the little crib; my face against Helen Burns’s shoulder, my arms round her neck. I was asleep, and Helen was -- dead.

3

A small sleeping berth in a packet or other small vessel.

4

A wicker basket.

5

A manger, a feeding trough for animals elevated off the earth or floor, especially one for fodder such as hay.

verb

1

To place or confine in a crib.

They may go to their beds and give themselves no trouble about their work, and yet in the morning the maids will find the kitchen swept up, and water brought in, and the men will find the horses in the stable well cleaned and curried, and perhaps a supply corn cribbed for them from the neighbours barns.

2

To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.

if only the vital energy be not cribbed or cramped

But now I am cabin'd, cribbed, confined, bound in, / To saucy doubts and fears

3

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.

I cribbed the recipe from the Food Network site, but made a few changes of my own.

4

To plagiarize; to copy; to cheat.

He then proceeded to patch his tags together with the help of his Gradus, producing an incongruous and feeble result of eight elegiac lines, the minimum quantity for his form, and finishing up with two highly moral lines extra, making ten in all, which he cribbed entire from one of his books, beginning "O genus humanum," and which he himself must have used a dozen times before, whenever an unfortunate or wicked hero, of whatever nation or language under the sun, was the subject.

This subplot—as well as a few other threads that have been teased from the Star Wars saga’s next installment—prompts another question: just how much of this film’s plot will be cribbed from The Empire Strikes Back?

5

To install timber supports, as with cribbing.

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