crib

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Noun

1. {{lb|en|US}} A baby’s [[bed]] with [[high]], often [[slatted]], often moveable [[side]]s, suitable for a child who has outgrown a [[cradle]] or [[bassinet]].
2. {{lb|en|British}} A bed for a child older than a baby.
3. {{lb|en|nautical}} A small [[sleeping]] [[berth]] in a [[packet]] or other small vessel.
4. A [[wicker]] [[basket]].
5. A [[manger]], a feeding [[trough]] for [[animal]]s elevated off the earth or floor, especially one for [[fodder]] such as [[hay]].
6. The baby Jesus and the manger in a [[creche]] or [[nativity scene]], consisting of [[statue]]s of [[Mary]], [[Joseph]] and various other characters such as the [[magi]].
7. A [[bin]] for drying or storing [[grain]], such as a [[corn crib]].
8. A small room or covered structure, especially one of rough construction, used for storage or penning animals.
9. A confined space, such as a cage or office cubicle.
10. {{lb|en|obsolete}} A [[job]], a [[position]]; {{lb|en|British}} an [[appointment]].
11. A [[hovel]], a roughly constructed building best suited to the shelter of animals but used for human habitation.
12. A boxy structure traditionally built of heavy wooden [[timber]]s, 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]].

Verb

1. {{lb|en|transitive}} To place or confine in a crib.
2. To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.
3. {{lb|en|transitive}} 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]].
4. {{lb|en|transitive|informal}} To [[plagiarize]]; to [[copy]]; to [[cheat]].
5. {{lb|en|intransitive}} To install timber supports, as with [[cribbing]].
6. {{lb|en|transitive|archaic}} To [[steal]] or [[embezzle]].
7. {{lb|en|Indian English}} To [[complain]], to [[grumble]]
8. To [[crowd]] together, or to be confined, as if in a crib or in narrow accommodations.
9. {{lb|en|intransitive|of a horse}} To seize the [[manger]] or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind.
10. {{lb|en|cryptography}} To use a known piece of information corresponding to a section of encrypted text, to work out the remaining sections.

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