crib

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The crib is Italian-made, aesthetically in line with the rest of our home furnishings, and was less than half the price if we had purchased it new.

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  1. noun A bed with high sides for a young child or baby.
  2. noun A small building, usually with slatted sides, for storing corn.
  3. noun A rack or trough for fodder; a manger.

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  • His smile turns inward: But I feel like a little boy who makes mud pies and carries them to the hungry Padre H—— takes your plastic card, which he calls a crib sheet, and accompanies you to the Mail Room. —  Asimov'sSF,July2008
  • After a quick welcome to their crib, the brothers showed off the main floor and then led the crew upstairs to their bedrooms, entertainment room and John's office / studio and finally downstairs to the spare bedroom, workout room and a second entertainment room. —  The Roanoke Times: Home page
  • Candles and tapers burn before the crib, which is surrounded by some pious women, and a number of children, who never grow weary of admiring the Holy Family and its brilliant retinue I was one day in a church where there was one of these cribs. —  Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 1, January 1886
  • At one end of the hut there was a bed-place, big enough for two; it was variously termed a crib, a shelf, a tumble-in, and a bunk. —  The Golden Dream Adventures in the Far West
  • The little boy stirred and tossed in his crib, and she went to arrange the coverlet over him; and as she was moving listlessly about the room, something glistened in a stray sunbeam and caught her short-sighted eyes, and from the cushions of the great easy-chair, where it had lain since the first day of her coming, she drew the book that Miss Gertrude had been reading when she watched the pretty picture she made as she sat beneath the drooping leaves With a cry of delight, she recognised her old favourite, "The Lights and Shadows of Scottish Life." —  Christie Redfern's Troubles
 

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bedstead ·  cot ·  cradle ·  stroller ·  bunk ·  pallet ·  coffin

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crib:   cribs ·  cribbing
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English, manger, from Old English cribb.

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  1. from Middle English crib, cribbe, from Anglo-Saxon crib, cryb = Old Saxon kribbia = Middle Dutch kribbe, Dutch krib = Middle Low German Low German kribbe, krubbe = Old High German crippea, crippa (later Old French creche, later English cratch, q. v.), also chripfa, krippha, Middle High German krippe, kripfe, German krippe = Icelandic krubba = Swedish krubba = Danish krybbe, a crib, manger. In senses 14–16, the noun is from the verb.
  2. = Middle High German krippen, lay in a crib, German krippen, feed at a crib; from the noun.
 

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