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Cribbing

verb
/ˈkɹɪbɪŋ/
Word Frequency: 0.1

Definitions

1.verbTo place or confine in a crib.
2.verbTo shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.
3.verbTo collect one or more passages and/or references for use in a speech, written document or as an aid for some task; to create a crib sheet.
"I cribbed the recipe from the Food Network site, but made a few changes of my own."
4.verbTo plagiarize; to copy; to cheat.
5.verbTo install timber supports, as with cribbing.
6.verbTo steal or embezzle, to cheat out of.
7.verb(Indian English) To complain, to grumble
8.verbTo crowd together, or to be confined, as if in a crib or in narrow accommodations.
9.verb(of a horse) To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind.
10.nounThe members used to build a (structural) crib, usually of timbers or logs, but also of concrete, steel or even plastic; cribwork.
11.nounAs a whole, the heavy structure built to support an existing structure from underneath, as with a mineshaft or when raising a building off its foundation, as for moving to another location,
"After the Loma Prieta earthquake, they had to put cribbing under portions of San Francisco's Embarcadero Freeway, for fear it would collapse."
12.nounThe cribbing used to support anything from below or on a side, as with a retaining wall, or to prop up a piece of heavy machinery.
13.nounA self-injurious tendency of certain horses to swallow air while slobbering and biting onto objects in and about their enclosure; cribbing and windsucking are regarded as equine forms of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
14.nounAn act of plagiarism.

Synonyms

hooktetheranchorageanchoringanchorcradlingcruckcradlecrib mattresscraddlecobhousecrabling

Rhymes With

ribbinghibbinglibbing
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