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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
–verb (used with object)
18.
Informal. to pilfer or steal, esp. to plagiarize (another's writings or ideas).
19.
to confine in or as if in a crib.
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to provide with a crib or cribs.
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to line with timber or planking.
–verb (used without object)
22.
Informal.
a.
to use a crib in examinations, homework, translating, etc.
b.
to steal; plagiarize.
23.
(of a horse) to practice cribbing.
[Origin: bef. 1000; ME cribbe, OE crib(b); c. D krib, G Krippe;cf. crèche]
Any of several types or breeds of horses that are small in size when full grown, such as the Shetland pony.
Informal A racehorse.
Sports A polo horse.
Something small for its kind, especially a small glass for beer or liqueur.
A word-for-word translation of a foreign language text, especially one used secretly by students as an aid in studying or test-taking. Also called crib, trot.
Chiefly British The sum of 25 pounds.
tr. & intr.v.
po·nied, po·ny·ing, 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.]
O.E. cribbe "manger, fodder bin in cowsheds and fields," from a W.Gmc. root probably related to Ger. krebe "basket." Meaning "child's bed with barred sides" is 1649; probably from frequent use in reference to the manger where infant Jesus was laid. Verb meaning "steal" is 17c. from alternate meaning "a basket," and this is probably source of student slang "plagiarize" (1778). Thieves' slang for "dwelling house" dates to at least 1812. The O.H.G. version passed to Fr. and became creche.
Cratch\ (kr?ch; 224), n. [OE. cracche, crecche, F. cr[`e]che crib, manger, fr. OHG. krippa, krippea, G. krippe crib. See Crib.] A manger or open frame for hay; a crib; a rack. [Obs.] Begin from first where He encradled was, In simple cratch, wrapt in a wad of hay. --Spenser. Cratch cradle, a representation of the figure of the cratch, made upon the fingers with a string; cat's cradle; -- called also scratch cradle.
Crib\ (kr?b), n. [AS. crybb; akin to OS. kribbja, D. krib, kribbe, Dan. krybbe, G. krippe, and perh. to MHG. krebe basket, G, korb, and E. rip a sort of wicker basket.]1. A manger or rack; a feeding place for animals. 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. 5. A hovel; a hut; a cottage. 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.
Crib\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cribbed (kr?bd); 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. --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.
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