crib
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
crib
- (US) A baby’s bed with high, often slatted, often moveable sides, suitable for a child who has outgrown a cradle or bassinet.
- Synonyms: cot (British and Southern Hemisphere)
- (British) A bed for a child older than a baby.
- 1848, Charlotte Brontë, [https://web.archive.org/web/20140811201712/http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=%2Ftexts%2Fenglish%2Fmodeng%2Fpublicsearch%2Fmodengpub.o2w Jane Eyre.]
- 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.
- 1848, Charlotte Brontë, [https://web.archive.org/web/20140811201712/http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=%2Ftexts%2Fenglish%2Fmodeng%2Fpublicsearch%2Fmodengpub.o2w Jane Eyre.]
- (nautical) A small sleeping berth in a packet ship or other small vessel
- A wicker basket; compare Moses 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.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗:Proverbs 14:4
- Where no oxen are, the crib is clean: but much increase is by the strength of the ox.
- A confined space, as with a cage or office-cubicle
- (obsolete) A job, a position; (British), an appointment.
- 1893,— Arthur Conan Doyle, [https://web.archive.org/web/20140811201712/http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=%2Ftexts%2Fenglish%2Fmodeng%2Fpublicsearch%2Fmodengpub.o2w “The Adventure of the Stockbroker’s Clerk”.]
- but if I have lost my crib and get nothing in exchange I shall feel what a soft Johnny I have been.
- 1893,— Arthur Conan Doyle, [https://web.archive.org/web/20140811201712/http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=%2Ftexts%2Fenglish%2Fmodeng%2Fpublicsearch%2Fmodengpub.o2w “The Adventure of the Stockbroker’s Clerk”.]
- A hovel, a roughly constructed building best suited to the shelter of animals but used for human habitation.
- (slang) One’s residence, or where one normally hangs out. A house or dwelling place.
- 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.
- 1913 D. H. Lawrence, [https://web.archive.org/web/20140811201712/http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=%2Ftexts%2Fenglish%2Fmodeng%2Fpublicsearch%2Fmodengpub.o2w Sons and Lovers].
- “May we play crib, Mrs. Radford?” he asked.
- 1913 D. H. Lawrence, [https://web.archive.org/web/20140811201712/http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=%2Ftexts%2Fenglish%2Fmodeng%2Fpublicsearch%2Fmodengpub.o2w Sons and Lovers].
- (cribbage) The cards discarded by players and used by the dealer.
- 1814 July, [Jane Austen], chapter XI, in Mansfield Park: A Novel. In Three Volumes, volume II, London: Printed for T[homas] Egerton, […], OCLC 39810224 ↗, page 239 ↗:
- The cards were brought and Fanny played at cribbage with her aunt till bed-time; and as Sir Thomas was reading to himself, no sounds were heard in the room for the next two hours beyond the reckonings of the game—And that makes thirty-one, four in hand and eight in crib.
- (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.
- Synonyms: bach (northern New Zealand)
- (Australia, New Zealand) A packed lunch taken to work.
- (Canada) A small raft made of timber.
- (UK, obsolete, thieves' cant) The stomach.
- (slang) A cheat sheet or past test used by students; crib sheet.
- French: berceau
- German: Gitterbett
- Italian: culla, lettino a sponde alte
- Portuguese: berço
- Russian: детский
- Spanish: cuna
- French: huche
- German: Krippe
- Italian: greppia, mangiatoia
- Portuguese: manjedoura, cocho
- Russian: я́сли
- Russian: за́кром
- French: antisèche
- German: Spickzettel, Schummelzettel
- Portuguese: cola
- Russian: шпарга́лка
- Spanish: machete, chuleta
crib (cribs, present participle cribbing; past and past participle cribbed)
- (transitive) To place or confine in a crib.
- To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.
- I. Taylor
- if only the vital energy be not cribbed or cramped
- I. Taylor
- (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.
- I cribbed the recipe from the Food Network site, but made a few changes of my own.
- (transitive, informal) To plagiarize; to copy; to cheat.
- (intransitive) To install timber supports, as with cribbing.
- (transitive, obsolete) To steal or embezzle, to cheat out of.
- (Indian English) 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.
- Russian: спи́сывать
- Spanish: fusilar
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