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

1. noun. A manger or rack; a feeding place for animals.
2. noun. A stall for oxen or other cattle.
3. noun. A small inclosed bedstead or cot for a child.
4. noun. A box or bin, or similar wooden structure, for storing grain, salt, etc.; as, a crib for corn or oats.
5. noun. A hovel; a hut; a cottage.
6. noun. A structure or frame of timber for a foundation, or for supporting a roof, or for lining a shaft.
7. noun. A structure of logs to be anchored with stones; -- used for docks, pier, dams, etc.
8. noun. A small raft of timber.
9. noun. A small theft; anything purloined;; a plagiaris/; hence, a translation or key, etc., to aid a student in preparing or reciting his lessons.
10. noun. A miner's luncheon.
11. noun. The discarded cards which the dealer can use in scoring points in cribbage.
12. transitive verb. To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.
13. transitive verb. To pilfer or purloin; hence, to steal from an author; to appropriate; to plagiarize; as, to crib a line from Milton.
14. intransitive verb. To crowd together, or to be confined, as in a crib or in narrow accommodations.
15. intransitive verb. To make notes for dishonest use in recitation or examination.
16. intransitive verb. To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind; -- said of a horse.
17. noun. a card game (usually for two players) in which each player is dealt six cards and discards one or two

    Synonyms: cribbage

18. noun. the cards discarded by players at cribbage
19. noun. baby bed with high sides made of slats

    Synonyms: cot

20. noun. a bin or granary for storing grains
21. noun. a literal translation used in studying a foreign language (often used illicitly)

    Synonyms: pony, trot

22. verb. line with beams or planks

    "crib a construction hole"

23. verb. take unauthorized (intellectual material)
24. verb. use a crib, as in an exam

Synonyms

cribbage, cot, pony, trot

Common word forms

cribs, cribbed, cribber, cribbing

Words from these letters

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