Definitions for cribbing

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IPA: /ˈkrɪb ɪŋ/

Cribbing is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 80 anagrams from letters in cribbing (bbcgiinr).

Definitions for cribbing

noun

1. Veterinary Medicine.. Also called crib-biting, wind-sucking. an injurious habit in which a horse bites its manger and as a result swallows air.
2. Mining. a timber lining, closely spaced, as in a shaft or raise. pieces of timber for lining a shaft, raise, etc.
3. Building Trades, Civil Engineering. a system of cribs, as for retaining earth or for a building or the like being moved or having its foundations rebuilt.
4. a child's bed with enclosed sides.
5. a stall or pen for cattle.
6. a rack or manger for fodder, as in a stable or barn.
7. a bin for storing grain, salt, etc.
8. Informal. a translation, list of correct answers, or other illicit aid used by students while reciting, taking exams, or the like; pony. plagiarism. a petty theft.
9. a room, closet, etc., in a factory or the like, in which tools are kept and issued to workers.
10. a shallow, separate section of a bathing area, reserved for small children.
11. any confined space.
12. Slang. a house, shop, etc., frequented by thieves or regarded by thieves as a likely place for burglarizing.
13. Building Trades, Civil Engineering. any of various cellular frameworks of logs, squared timbers, or steel or concrete objects of similar form assembled in layers at right angles, often filled with earth and stones and used in the construction of foundations, dams, retaining walls, etc.
14. a barrier projecting part of the way into a river and then upward, acting to reduce the flow of water and as a storage place for logs being floated downstream.
15. a lining for a well or other shaft.
16. Slang. one's home; pad.
17. Cribbage. a set of cards made up by equal contributions from each player's hand, and belonging to the dealer.
18. a cheap, ill-kept brothel.
19. a wicker basket.
20. British, Australian. lunch, especially a cold lunch carried from home to work and eaten by a laborer on the job; snack.

verb (used with object)

1. Informal. to pilfer or steal, especially to plagiarize (another's writings or ideas).
2. to confine in or as if in a crib.
3. to provide with a crib or cribs.
4. to line with timber or planking.

verb (used without object)

1. Informal. to use a crib in examinations, homework, translating, etc. to steal; plagiarize.
2. (of a horse) to practice cribbing.

Origin of cribbing

First recorded in 1635-45; crib + -ing¹

Examples for cribbing

Why—why—I reckon I can put things together soon's I get the cribbing.

The cribbing occurs in the general reflections devoted to the Renaissance.

cribbing in examinations he would have thought the limit of his crimes.

How long do you suppose it would take to get the cribbing down from Ledyard?

There, by cribbing across the bottom, they got in a temporary line.

I'll keep watch, and you try your hand at cribbing some of their gas juice.

He's been jollying me about that cribbing for the last two weeks.

cribbing some minutes from breakfast, I went up to his room.

The barge was there, so the work of loading the cribbing into her began at once.

Gibbs' cribbing: "milk," "bread," "eggs," "hope," and "change."