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The members used to build a (structural) crib, usually of timbers or logs, but also of concrete, steel or even plastic; cribwork
As a whole, the heavy structure built to support an existing structure from underneath, as with a mineshaft or when raising a building off its foundation, as for moving to another location

If the structure is to be raised in place without relocation, once it is raised to the desired elevation the jacks are replaced with timber cribbing. --.

A self-injurious tendency of certain horses to swallow air while slobbering and biting onto objects in and about their enclosure and regarded as an equine form of obsessive-compulsive disorder
Present participle of crib
The cribbing used to support anything from below or on a side, as with a retaining wall, or to prop up a piece of heavy machinery
Cribbing (US) or crib biting (UK) is a compulsive behavior or stereotypy seen in some horses, and considered a stable vice. It involves the horse grabbing a solid object such as the stall door or fence rail with its incisors, then arching its neck, pulling against the object, and sucking in air
The act of inclosing or confining in a crib or in close quarters
The act of placing some firm material around the below ground portion of a power pole
a construction consisting of wooden, metal or reinforced concrete units so assembled as to form an open cellular-like structure for supporting a superimposed load or for resisting horizontal or overturning forces acting against it
Describes the way timbers are stacked underneath a vessel (or any large object) to support it, as it is slowly raised
Purloining; stealing; plagiarizing
A framework of timbers and plank backing for a shaft lining, to prevent caving, percolation of water, etc
The construction of cribs or timbers laid at right angles to each other, sometimes filled with earth, as a roof support or as a support for machinery
A wall-like structure made of rocks and/or timber that acts as a retaining wall, while allowing controlled drainage of water through its structure
The horse lays hold of the crib or manger with his teeth and draws air into the stomach with a grunting sound
A vice in which the horse grabs onto a horizontal object, stretches his esophagus and sucks wind This learned behavior ranges from occasional to obsessive
A vicious habit of a horse; crib- biting
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A hovel, a roughly constructed building best suited to the shelter of animals but used for human habitation
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A job, a position; (British), an appointment

but if I have lost my crib and get nothing in exchange I shall feel what a soft Johnny I have been.

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To steal or embezzle, to cheat out of: petty thieving

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? — Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, 1848, .

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One’s residence, or where one normally hangs out
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A minor theft, extortion or embezzlement, with or without criminal intent
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To install timber supports, as with cribbing
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A boxy structure traditionally built of heavy wooden timbers, to support an existing structure from below, as with a mineshaft or a building being raised off its foundation in preparation for being moved; see cribbing
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A small sleeping berth in a packet ship or other small vessel
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A small holiday home, often near a beach and of simple construction
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To place or confine in a crib

Zeugmatically, she cribbed the baby and then the corn.

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A baby’s bed (British and Australasian cot) 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!''.

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A confined space, as with a cage or office-cubicle

The singers were in a crib of wirework (like a large meat-safe or bird-cage) in one corner.

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

Where no oxen are, the crib is clean: but much increase is by the strength of the ox.

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A known piece of information corresponding to a section of encrypted text, that is then used to work out the remaining sections
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A manger, a feeding trough for animals elevated off the earth or floor, especially one for fodder such as hay
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: The cards discarded by players and used by the dealer

And that makes thirty-one; -- four in hand and eight in crib. -- You are to deal, ma’am; shall I deal for you?”''.

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A wicker basket; compare Moses basket
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: Short for the card game cribbage

May we play crib, Mrs. Radford?” he asked.

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{v} to steal, cage, shut up, confine
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In kiln drying, a stickered kiln truckload of lumber usually stacked onto kiln trucks and kiln bunks to make a load 8 or 9 feet wide, 10 to 12 feet high, and as long as the lumber being stacked The stacking is often done with automatic equipment
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a structure consisting of a foundation grillage combined with a superimposed framework providing compartments or coffers which are filled with gravel, concrete or other material satisfactory for supporting the structure to be placed thereon
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heavy wood blocks and framing used as a foundation
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1 Plain text assumed or known to be present, or key assumed or known to have been used, in an encrypted message or transmission 2 To assume plain text or key
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as, a crib for corn or oats
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A crib is a bed for a small baby. cribbed cribbing to copy school or college work dishonestly from someone else crib sth off/from sb
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One's residence, or where one normally hangs out
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A baby's bed (British and Australasian cot) with high, often slatted, often moveable sides, suitable for a child who has outgrown a cradle or bassinet
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{f} steal; imprison; place in a crib; copy, plagiarize; practice crib-biting (of a horse)
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a card game in which each player is dealt 6 cards and discards one or two to make up the crib
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baby bed with high sides
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A manger or rack; a feeding place for animals
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use a crib, as in an exam
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A small theft; anything purloined; a plagiarism; hence, a translation or key, etc
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A small raft of timber
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A structure or frame of timber for a foundation, or for supporting a roof, or for lining a shaft
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A small, covered structure for confining animals
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A small inclosed bedstead or cot for a child
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A box or bin, or similar wooden structure, for storing grain, salt, etc
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take unauthorized (intellectual material)
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(n) Home "I got Black Caesar at the crib " --Public Enemy, "Burn Hollywood Burn"
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A miner's luncheon
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A collection of quotes or references for use in speaking, for for assembling a written document, or as an aid to a project of some sort; a crib sheet
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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
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Code name for the MessagePad 110/120/130 charging cradle Also referred to as the Lindy Crib See also Lindy Source: VR
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A foundation usually constructed of timber and filled with rock and/or concrete Sometimes sheathed with steel plate
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The licit or illicit use of a pony or cheat sheet when taking a test; when illicit, a form of academic dishonesty, and even plagiarism
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A buried structure, often of wood or concrete, filled with aggregate Its function is to hold or disperse low-level liquids and of solutions for percolation into the ground
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A structure consisting of a foundation grillage combined with a superimposed framework providing compartments that are filled with gravel, stones, or other material satisfactory for supporting the structure placed on top of it (2)
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to aid a student in preparing or reciting his lessons
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A structure of logs to be anchored with stones; used for docks, pier, dams, etc
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A stall for large domestic animals
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To complain [about something]
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The cards discarded by players and used by the dealer
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To crowd together, or to be confined, as in a crib or in narrow accommodations
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Pen of short logs assembled cabin style When a crib is filled with rocks it can be used as a pier to support certain types of bridges
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a structure with compartments or coffers full or partly full of satisfactory material for supporting the structure It may also serve as a training wall averting changes in shore and bank locations The exterior portion may be planked or sheet-piled to protect the crib against erosion or floating debris See also dike
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A roof support of prop timbers or ties, laid in alternate cross-layers, log-cabin style It may or may not be filled with debris Also may be called a chock or cog
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baby bed with high sides line with beams or planks; "crib a construction hole"
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To be cabined and cribbed and confined; to be caged, hemmed in, confined
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A hovel; a hut; a cottage
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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
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Short for the card game cribbage
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To engage in academic dishonesty by the illicit use of a pony or cheat sheet; plagiarism
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To cram for a particular subject from notes
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A bin for drying or storing grain, as with a corn crib
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To make notes for dishonest use in recitation or examination
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Pad, House (noun) a place to lay your head at night or your place where you live/"Bible study be jumping off at my crib "
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A wicker basket; c.f. Moses basket
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A hovel or additional room off a hovel, or set of such rooms, used for prostitution
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To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp
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baby bed with high sides line with beams or planks; "crib a construction hole" take unauthorized (intellectual material) use a crib, as in an exam
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The discarded cards which the dealer can use in scoring points in cribbage
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A small room, especially one of rough construction, used for storage or penning animals
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To pilfer or purloin; hence, to steal from an author; to appropriate; to plagiarize; as, to crib a line from Milton
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To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind; said of a horse
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A bed for a child older than a baby
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take unauthorized (intellectual material) use a crib, as in an exam
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{i} small bed for a baby; feed rack for animals; stall; plagiarism; translation
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a literal translation used in studying a foreign language (often used illicitly)
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line with beams or planks; "crib a construction hole"
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A stall for oxen or other cattle
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