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(US) A baby’s bed with high, often slatted, often moveable sides, suitable for a child who has outgrown a cradle or bassinet.

(British) A bed for a child older than a baby.

(nautical) A small sleeping berth in a packet ship or other small vessel

A wicker basket.

A manger, a feeding trough for animals elevated off the earth or floor, especially one for fodder such as hay.

The baby Jesus and the manger in a creche or nativity scene, consisting of statues of Mary, Joseph and various other characters such as the magi.

A bin for drying or storing grain.

A small room or covered structure, especially one of rough construction, used for storage or penning animals.

A confined space, as with a cage or office-cubicle

(obsolete) A job, a position; (British) an appointment.

A hovel, a roughly constructed building best suited to the shelter of animals but used for human habitation.

A boxy structure traditionally built of heavy wooden timbers, to support an existing structure from below, as with a mineshaft or a building being raised off its foundation in preparation for being moved; see cribbing.

A collection of quotes or references for use in speaking, for assembling a written document, or as an aid to a project of some sort; a crib sheet.

(obsolete) A minor theft, extortion or embezzlement, with or without criminal intent.

(cribbage) The card game cribbage.

(cribbage) The cards discarded by players and used by the dealer.

(cryptography) A known piece of information corresponding to a section of encrypted text, that is then used to work out the remaining sections.

(southern New Zealand) A small holiday home, often near a beach and of simple construction.

📑 Synonyms: bach

(now chiefly Australia, New Zealand) A snack or packed lunch, especially as taken to work to eat during a break.

(Canada) A small raft made of timber.

(UK, obsolete, thieves' cant) The stomach.

A literal translation, usually of a work originally in Latin or Ancient Greek.

(slang) A cheat sheet or past test used by students; crib sheet.

(slang, sometimes African-American Vernacular) One’s residence, house or dwelling place, or usual place of resort.

To place or confine in a crib.

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

To 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.

(informal) To plagiarize; to copy; to cheat.

To install timber supports, as with cribbing.

(archaic) To steal or embezzle.

(India) To complain, to grumble.

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

(of a horse) To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind.