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Crib
Open directlyHastings Dictionary of the Bible · 1898
CRIB,a stall for cattle or fodder, Prov 14:4; Job 39:9; Isa 1:3; or perhaps simply the manger out of which the cattle were to eat.
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Schaff's Dictionary of the Bible · 1880
CRIB,a stall for cattle or fodder, Prov 14:4; Job 39:9; Isa 1:3; or perhaps simply the manger out of which the cattle were to eat.
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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 3
Part of speech: noun (n.)
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. 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 [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. The discarded cards which the dealer can use in scoring points in cribbage.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 3
Part of speech: verb (v.)
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.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 3
Part of speech: verb (v.)
1. To crowd together, or to be confined, as in a crib or in narrow accommodations. [R.] Who sought to make . . . bishops to crib in a Presbyterian trundle bed. Gauden.
2. To make notes for dishonest use in recitation or examination. [College Cant]
3. To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind; -- said of a horse.