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WordNet
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n. baby bed with high sides [syn: cot ] a literal translation used in studying a foreign language (often used illicitly) [syn: pony , trot ] a card game in which each player is dealt 6 cards and discards one or two to make up the crib [syn: cribbage ] v. ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The members used to build a (structural) crib, usually of timbers or logs, but also of concrete, steel or even plastic; cribwork. 2 As a whole, the heavy structure built to support an existing structure from underneath, as with a mineshaft or when ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Crib \Crib\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cribbed (kr[i^]bd); p. pr. & vb. n. Cribbing .] 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. ...
Wikipedia
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Cribbing or crib biting is an abnormal , 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, ...
Usage examples of cribbing.
Then they drove a horizontal passage beneath the presumed bottom of the original Water Pit, where they found cribbing and the continuation of the original backfilled shaft.
Resuming the dig, they soon reached a number of heavy vertical oak beams and cross-joists, which appeared to be the ancient cribbing of a backfilled shaft.
But while we're at it, I want everyone to make as many observations as possible: the condition of the cribbing, the size and number of the tunnels, anything that seems pertinent.
As they descended once again, the original cribbing in the shaft became more clearly defined as thick layers of seaweed gave way to long hanging strings of kelp.
They worked their way down the ladder, placing stress sensors into the beams and cribbing as they went, until they reached the narrow platform at the fifty-foot level.
Three hours later and six miles to the southeast, the light struggled down through the mist into the vast, damp labyrinth of braces and cribbing that made up the Water Pit.
As Hatch threw himself sideways into the mud, the second shot ripped into the cribbing directly behind him.
Knocked against the metal railing, Hatch could see the cribbing on either side of the shaft begin to split and unravel.
A piece of cribbing gave way beneath Hatch's feet, then another, and he scrabbled furiously for a moment before finding another purchase.
As the tunnel advanced, cribbing was set into place so that the overhead and the sides were lined with tarred cedar timbers.
But the Nikolayans refused to admit outside surveyors, even from "neutral" colleges, to enter their Control Room, calling the proposal a mere pretext for cribbing secrets, and argued besides (though not officially) that it was the Power Lines that determined the location of the Boundary.
The breakwaters required to do this were built with cribbing of incorrodible metal, affixed to deeply driven metallic piles, and filled with stones along coasts where they were found in abundance or excess.
The exits are, of course, protected by a line of cribbing a few hundred feet to seaward.
It was difficult to fake the mathematics, but we spent many hours in the late afternoons cribbing up our translations of Ovid from a couple of books in Grandfather’s library—old translations by eminent Victorians, with small print and complicated vocabularies.
From somewhere close by I could smell the good smell of fresh lumber, and then I saw it, great tiers of planks stacked to season in the sun, and a cribbing of heavy timbers and poles for masts.