The steer lion at one crib shall meet. --Pope.
2. A stall for oxen or other cattle.
Where no oxen are, the crib is clean. --Prov. xiv.
4.
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.
Why rather, Sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, . . .
Than in the perfumed chambers of the great? --Shak.
6. (Mining) A structure or frame of timber for a foundation,
or for supporting a roof, or for lining a shaft.
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 plagiaris?; hence, a
translation or key, etc., to aid a student in preparing or
reciting his lessons. [Colloq.]
The Latin version technically called a crib. --Ld.
Lytton.
Occasional perusal of the Pagan writers, assisted by
a crib. --Wilkie
Collins.
10. A miner's luncheon. [Cant] --Raymond.
11. (Card Playing) The discarded cards which the dealer can
use in scoring points in cribbage.
Who sought to make . . . bishops to crib in a
Presbyterian trundle bed. --Gauden.
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.
If only the vital energy be not cribbed or cramped.
--I. Taylor.
Now I am cabin'd, cribbed, confined. --Shak.
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.
--Dickens.