[krib] 
noun, verb, cribbed, crib⋅bing.| 1. | a child's bed with enclosed sides. |
| 2. | a stall or pen for cattle. |
| 3. | a rack or manger for fodder, as in a stable or barn. |
| 4. | a bin for storing grain, salt, etc. |
| 5. | Informal.
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| 6. | a room, closet, etc., in a factory or the like, in which tools are kept and issued to workers. |
| 7. | a shallow, separate section of a bathing area, reserved for small children. |
| 8. | any confined space. |
| 9. | Slang. a house, shop, etc., frequented by thieves or regarded by thieves as a likely place for burglarizing. |
| 10. | Building Trades, Civil Engineering. any of various cellular frameworks of logs, squared timbers, or steel or concrete objects of similar form assembled in layers at right angles, often filled with earth and stones and used in the construction of foundations, dams, retaining walls, etc. |
| 11. | a barrier projecting part of the way into a river and then upward, acting to reduce the flow of water and as a storage place for logs being floated downstream. |
| 12. | a lining for a well or other shaft. |
| 13. | Slang. one's home; pad. |
| 14. | Cribbage. a set of cards made up by equal contributions from each player's hand, and belonging to the dealer. |
| 15. | a cheap, ill-kept brothel. |
| 16. | a wicker basket. |
| 17. | British, Australian. lunch, esp. a cold lunch carried from home to work and eaten by a laborer on the job; snack. |
| 18. | Informal. to pilfer or steal, esp. to plagiarize (another's writings or ideas). |
| 19. | to confine in or as if in a crib. |
| 20. | to provide with a crib or cribs. |
| 21. | to line with timber or planking. |
| 22. | Informal.
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| 23. | (of a horse) to practice cribbing. |
| crib (krĭb) n.
v. tr.
To plagiarize; cheat. [Middle English, manger, from Old English cribb.] crib'ber n. |
| po·ny (pō'nē) n. pl. po·nies
To study with the aid of a pony: pony a lesson; ponied all night before the exam. Phrasal Verb(s): pony up Slang To pay (money owed or due). [Probably from obsolete French poulenet, diminutive of poulain, colt, from Late Latin pullāmen, young of an animal, from Latin pullus; see pau-1 in Indo-European roots.] |
| Main Entry: | crib |
| Part of Speech: | n |
| Definition: | See cheat sheet |
| Main Entry: | crib |
| Part of Speech: | n |
| Definition: | See crib sheet |
crib
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crib
in agriculture, bin or large container for storing ear corn or other grain or a barred or slatted manger for the feeding of hay or other bulky fodder. Old-style cribs for unshelled corn, usually made of wood, have open or slat construction to ensure ventilation by the wind. Sometimes perforated clay or concrete block walls are used.
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