cribnoun/kɹɪb/

• 1

  A baby’s bed with high, often slatted, often moveable sides, suitable for a child who has outgrown a cradle or bassinet.

  • In two minutes I was kneeling by the child’s crib, and Sandy was dispatching servants here, there, and everywhere, all over the palace. I took in the situation almost at a glance -- membranous croup!
• 2

  A bed for a child older than a baby.

  • 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.
• 3

  nauticaltransportA small sleeping berth in a packet or other small vessel.

• 4

  A wicker basket.

• 5

  A manger, a feeding trough for animals elevated off the earth or floor, especially one for fodder such as hay.

• 6

  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.

• 7

  A bin for drying or storing grain, such as a corn crib.

  • I began to think of my horse. He, however, like an old campaigner, had taken good care of himself. I found him paying assiduous attention to the crib of Indian corn, and dexterously drawing forth and munching the ears that protruded between the bars.
• 8

  A small room or covered structure, especially one of rough construction, used for storage or penning animals.

  • A kitchen, a meat-house, a dairy, a crib with two stalls in the rear, one for the horse the other for the cow, were the out-buildings
  • Where no oxen are, the crib is clean: but much increase is by the strength of the ox.

cribverb/kɹɪb/

• 1

  To place or confine in a crib.

  • They may go to their beds and give themselves no trouble about their work, and yet in the morning the maids will find the kitchen swept up, and water brought in, and the men will find the horses in the stable well cleaned and curried, and perhaps a supply corn cribbed for them from the neighbours barns.
• 2

  To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.

  • if only the vital energy be not cribbed or cramped
  • But now I am cabin'd, cribbed, confined, bound in, / To saucy doubts and fears
• 3

  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.
• 4

  informalTo plagiarize; to copy; to cheat.

  • He then proceeded to patch his tags together with the help of his Gradus, producing an incongruous and feeble result of eight elegiac lines, the minimum quantity for his form, and finishing up with two highly moral lines extra, making ten in all, which he cribbed entire from one of his books, beginning "O genus humanum," and which he himself must have used a dozen times before, whenever an unfortunate or wicked hero, of whatever nation or language under the sun, was the subject.
  • This subplot—as well as a few other threads that have been teased from the Star Wars saga’s next installment—prompts another question: just how much of this film’s plot will be cribbed from The Empire Strikes Back?
• 5

  To install timber supports, as with cribbing.

• 6

  archaicTo steal or embezzle.

  • There are a brace of birds and hare, that I cribbed this morning out of a basket of game.
  • It was very easy, Briggs said, to make a galley-slave of a boy all the half-year, and then score him up idle; and to crib two dinners a-week out of his board, and then score him up greedy; but that wasn’t going to be submitted to, he believed, was it?
• 7

  To complain, to grumble

  • She calls on the neighbours, she's out half the time and doesn't answer the telephone, and when I start cribbing she just laughs.
• 8

  To crowd together, or to be confined, as if in a crib or in narrow accommodations.

  • […] who ſought to make the glory of the Nation and Church of England, which was ever Regal and Epiſcopal ſince it was Chriſtian, truckle under a Scotch Canopy, and to make Biſhops to crib in a Presbyterian trundle-bed; as much as Kingly Majeſtie, to be confounded with Democracy.