See Also: crib(2)(dictionary)
crib(1)(dictionary)
crib death(dictionary)
crib 2, verb(dictionary)
crib 1, noun(dictionary)
crib death(medicine)
Crib death(health)
tongue crib(medicine)
crib-biting(medicine)
CRIB-BITING(law)

crib(1) (iou)



crib noun.
[Old English crib(b) = Old Frisian cribbe, Old Saxon kribbia (Dutch krib(be), Old High German krippa (German Krippe). In branch III from the verb.]
I.
A barred receptacle for fodder etc.; a manger, esp. that in which the infant Jesus was said to be laid. OE.
b. A model of the manger-scene at Bethlehem. L19.
A stall in a cowshed. Now dial. ME.
Bible (AV): Proverbs 14:4 Where no Oxen are, the crib is cleane.
A wickerwork basket, pannier, etc.; a hop-picker's bin. LME-M19.
A small house, a cabin, in NZ spec. at the seaside, a holiday resort, etc.; a hovel; a narrow room; fig. a confined space. L16.
Shakespeare 2 Henry IV Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs..Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great. fig.: A. H. Clough The world..Whithersoever we turn, still is the same narrow crib.
b. A house, an apartment; spec. a public house, a saloon; a brothel. slang. M19.
crack a crib: see CRACK verb.
A small bed for a child, with barred or latticed sides; also occas., a cradle. Cf. COT noun4 3. M17.
Food, provisions; a light meal or snack. Now chiefly Austral. & NZ. M17.
A rack used in salt-making for drying salt after boiling. Now rare or obsolete. L17.
In full corn crib. A bin or ventilated building for storing maize. US. L17.
b. A storage bin or receptacle for other commodities, tools, etc. M19.
A framework of bars or spars for strengthening, support, etc. L17.
b. spec. A small raft of boards etc. N. Amer. L18.
c. Heavy crossed timbers used in foundations in loose soil, to support a pier, to form a dam, etc., (also more fully cribwork); a structure of such timbers. E19.
d. A framework lining the shaft of a mine. M19.
II.
In the game of cribbage, the set of cards given to the dealer by himself or herself and each other player; colloq. the game of cribbage. L17.
III.
A translated version for (esp. illegitimate) use by students. colloq. E19.
A plagiarism; a translation taken from a crib. colloq. M19.
Comb.: crib-biter a horse given to crib-biting; fig. a grumbler; crib-biting a horse's habit of seizing a manger, door, or projection in the teeth and at the same time noisily drawing in breath; cribwork: see sense 9c above.