CRIB

A manger or rack; a feeding place for animals. The steer lion at one crib shall meet. Pope.

A stall for oxen or other cattle. Where no oxen are, the crib is clean. Prov. xiv. 4.

A small inclosed bedstead or cot for a child.

A box or bin, or similar wooden structure, for storing grain, salt, etc.; as, a crib for corn or oats.

A hovel; a hut; a cottage. Why rather, Sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, . . . Than in the perfumed chambers of the great Shak.

A structure or frame of timber for a foundation, or for supporting a roof, or for lining a shaft.

A structure of logs to be anchored with stones; -- used for docks, pier, dams, etc.

A small raft of timber. [Canada]

A small theft; anything purloined;; a plagiaris [Colloq.] The Latin version technically called a crib. Ld. Lytton. Occasional perusal of the Pagan writers, assisted by a crib. Wilkie Collins.

A miner's luncheon. [Cant] Raymond.

The discarded cards which the dealer can use in scoring points in cribbage.

To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp. If only the vital energy be not cribbed or cramped. I. Taylor. Now I am cabin'd, cribbed, confined. Shak.

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. Dickens.

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. Gauden.

To make notes for dishonest use in recitation or examination. [College Cant]

To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind; -- said of a horse.