Dictionary Entry
crib
crib is a 4-letter English word with 24 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A manger or rack; a feeding place for animals. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 24 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A manger or rack; a feeding place for animals.
- 2noun
A stall for oxen or other cattle.
- 3noun
A small inclosed bedstead or cot for a child.
- 4noun
A box or bin, or similar wooden structure, for storing grain, salt, etc.; as, a crib for corn or oats.
- 5noun
A hovel; a hut; a cottage.
- 6noun
A structure or frame of timber for a foundation, or for supporting a roof, or for lining a shaft.
- 7noun
A structure of logs to be anchored with stones; -- used for docks, pier, dams, etc.
- 8noun
A small raft of timber.
- 9noun
A small theft; anything purloined;; a plagiaris/; hence, a translation or key, etc., to aid a student in preparing or reciting his lessons.
- 10noun
A miner's luncheon.
- 11noun
The discarded cards which the dealer can use in scoring points in cribbage.
- 12transitive verb
To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.
- 13transitive verb
To pilfer or purloin; hence, to steal from an author; to appropriate; to plagiarize; as, to crib a line from Milton.
- 14intransitive verb
To crowd together, or to be confined, as in a crib or in narrow accommodations.
- 15intransitive verb
To make notes for dishonest use in recitation or examination.
- 16intransitive verb
To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind; -- said of a horse.
- 17noun
a card game (usually for two players) in which each player is dealt six cards and discards one or two
Synonyms
- 18noun
the cards discarded by players at cribbage
- 19noun
baby bed with high sides made of slats
Synonyms
- 20noun
a bin or granary for storing grains
- 21noun
a literal translation used in studying a foreign language (often used illicitly)
- 22verb
line with beams or planks
"crib a construction hole"
- 23verb
take unauthorized (intellectual material)
- 24verb
use a crib, as in an exam
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