What is "cribbed"

Crib \Crib\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cribbed (kr[i^]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.

1. Of or pertaining to a crib, or things in a cri

2. vb. (en-past of: crib)

See crib

1. n. baby bed with high sides [syn: cot]

2. a literal translation used in studying a foreign language (often used illicitly) [syn: pony, trot]

3. a card game in which each player is dealt 6 cards and discards one or two to make up the crib [syn: cribbage]

4. v. use a crib, as in an exam

5. take unauthorized (intellectual material)

6. line with beams or planks; "crib a construction hole"

7. [also: cribbing, cribbed]