Noun
a card game in which each player is dealt 6 cards and discards one or two to make up the crib

Noun
baby bed with high sides

Noun
a literal translation used in studying a foreign language (often used illicitly)

Verb
line with beams or planks; "crib a construction hole"

Verb
take unauthorized (intellectual material)

Verb
use a crib, as in an exam

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n.
A manger or rack; a feeding place for animals.

n.
A stall for oxen or other cattle.

n.
A small inclosed bedstead or cot for a child.

n.
A box or bin, or similar wooden structure, for storing grain, salt, etc.; as, a crib for corn or oats.

n.
A hovel; a hut; a cottage.

n.
A structure or frame of timber for a foundation, or for supporting a roof, or for lining a shaft.

n.
A structure of logs to be anchored with stones; -- used for docks, pier, dams, etc.

n.
A small raft of timber.

n.
A small theft; anything purloined;; a plagiaris/; hence, a translation or key, etc., to aid a student in preparing or reciting his lessons.

n.
A miner's luncheon.

n.
The discarded cards which the dealer can use in scoring points in cribbage.

v. t.
To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.

v. t.
To pilfer or purloin; hence, to steal from an author; to appropriate; to plagiarize; as, to crib a line from Milton.

v. i.
To crowd together, or to be confined, as in a crib or in narrow accommodations.

v. i.
To make notes for dishonest use in recitation or examination.

v. i.
To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind; -- said of a horse.

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Crib

Crib (kr?b), n. [AS. crybb; akin to OS. kribbja, D. krib, kribbe, Dan. krybbe, G. krippe, and perh. to MHG. krebe basket, G, korb, and E. rip a sort of wicker basket.] 1. A manger or rack; a feeding place for animals.

The steer lion at one crib shall meet.

2. A stall for oxen or other cattle.

Where no oxen are, the crib is clean.

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?

6. (Mining) 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; hence, a translation or key, etc., to aid a student in preparing or reciting his lessons. [Colloq.]

The Latin version technically called a crib.

Occasional perusal of the Pagan writers, assisted by a crib.

10. A miner's luncheon. [Cant] Raymond. 11. (Card Playing) The discarded cards which the dealer can use in scoring points in cribbage.

Crib

Crib, v. t. [imp. & p.p. Cribbed (kr?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.

Now I am cabin'd, cribbed, confined.

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.

Crib

Crib, v. i. 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.

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.

A manger or rack; a feeding place for animals.

To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.

To crowd together, or to be confined, as in a crib or in narrow accommodations.