Crib /(krĭb)/

1. A manger or rack; a feeding place for animals.

   The steer lion at one crib shall meet.

2. A stall for oxen or other cattle.

   Where no oxen are, the crib is clean.

3. A small inclosed bedstead or cot for a child.
4. A box or bin, or similar wooden structure, for storing grain, salt, etc.; as, a crib for corn or oats.
5. A hovel; a hut; a cottage.

   Why rather, Sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, . . . Than in the perfumed chambers of the great?

6. A structure or frame of timber for a foundation, or for supporting a roof, or for lining a shaft. (Mining)
7. A structure of logs to be anchored with stones; -- used for docks, pier, dams, etc.
8. A small raft of timber. [Canada]
9. A small theft; anything purloined; a plagiarism; hence, a translation or key, etc., to aid a student in preparing or reciting his lessons. [Colloq.]

   The Latin version technically called a crib.

   Occasional perusal of the Pagan writers, assisted by a crib.

10. A miner's luncheon. [Cant]
11. The discarded cards which the dealer can use in scoring points in cribbage. (Card Playing)

imp. & p. p. Cribbed; p. pr. & vb. n. Cribbing

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

   If only the vital energy be not cribbed or cramped.

   Now I am cabin'd, cribbed, confined.

2. To pilfer or purloin; hence, to steal from an author; to appropriate; to plagiarize; as, to crib a line from Milton. [Colloq.]

   Child, being fond of toys, cribbed the necklace.

1. To crowd together, or to be confined, as in a crib or in narrow accommodations. [R.]

   Who sought to make . . . bishops to crib in a Presbyterian trundle bed.

2. To make notes for dishonest use in recitation or examination. [College Cant]
3. To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind; -- said of a horse.