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noun

Cribbing n.

The act of inclosing or confining in a crib or in close quarters.

Purloining; stealing; plagiarizing. (Colloq.)

(Mining) A framework of timbers and plank backing for a shaft lining, to prevent caving, percolation of water, etc.

A vicious habit of a horse; crib-biting. The horse lays hold of the crib or manger with his teeth and draws air into the stomach with a grunting sound.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Cribbing" Quotes from Famous Books

... step towards the perfection of his state, the new man's first winter-session passes; and it is not unlikely that, at the close of the course, he may enter to compete for the anatomical prize, which he sometimes gets by stealth, cribbing his answers from a tiny manual of knowledge, two inches by one-and-a-half in size, which he hides under his blotting-paper. This triumph achieved, he devotes the short period which intervenes before the commencement of the ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 1, October 23, 1841 • Various

... age, besides many thrifty trees of a later planting. The wooden barrier by which it is enclosed was once adorned with a coat of white paint, now nearly worn off. The topmost rails and post-heads of this fence have been so notched and gnawed by the jackknives of whittling idlers and the teeth of cribbing horses, that their original size and shape are matters concerning which the present generation are informed ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. I, No. 1, Nov. 1857 • Various