cribbing
Veterinary Medicine.Also called crib-bit·ing [krib-bahy-ting], /ˈkrɪbˌbaɪ tɪŋ/, wind-sucking . an injurious habit in which a horse bites its manger and as a result swallows air.
Mining.
a timber lining, closely spaced, as in a shaft or raise.
pieces of timber for lining a shaft, raise, etc.
Building Trades, Civil Engineering. a system of cribs, as for retaining earth or for a building or the like being moved or having its foundations rebuilt.
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How to use cribbing in a sentence
You know a movie script is special when you catch yourself cribbing heavily from its dialogue in everyday conversation.
Harold Ramis’s ‘Groundhog Day’ Is About as Perfect as a Movie Gets | Malcolm Jones | February 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTGibbs' cribbing: "milk," "bread," "eggs," "hope," and "change."
The dam was completed, booms and cribbing placed, ledges blasted out well within the six months' period set for those operations.
Scattergood Baines | Clarence Budington KellandWhen the Central Branch Railroad was built, the company took corn of settlers in payment for lands, cribbing it by the road.
Personal Recollections of Pardee Butler | Pardee ButlerIt was shored up with tamarac poles and when the camp was abandoned Paul pulled up this cribbing.
The Marvelous Exploits of Paul Bunyan | W. B. Laughead
"cribbing," often excused by people who do not stop to think, is the small beginning of a big evil.
A Girl's Student Days and After | Jeannette MarksHe slowly raised up his eyes, shame-facedly, like a schoolboy detected cribbing, when the master steals up behind.
Murder Point | Coningsby Dawson
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