crib

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A bed with high sides for a young child or baby.
2. n. A small building, usually with slatted sides, for storing corn.
3. n. A rack or trough for fodder; a manger.
4. n. A stall for cattle.
5. n. A small crude cottage or room.
6. n. Slang One's home.
7. n. A framework to support or strengthen a mine or shaft.
8. n. A wicker basket.
9. n. A petty theft.
10. n. Plagiarism.
11. n. See pony.
12. n. Games A set of cards made up from discards by each player in cribbage, used by the dealer.
13. v. To confine in or as if in a crib.
14. v. To furnish with a crib.
15. v. To plagiarize (an idea or answer, for example).
16. v. To steal.
17. v. To plagiarize; cheat.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. The manger or rack of a stable or house for cattle; a feeding-place for cattle; specifically, in the Roman Catholic Church, a representation of the manger in which Christ was born. See bambino.
2. n. A stall for oxen or other cattle; a pen for cattle.
3. n. A small frame with inclosed sides for a child's bed. A small chamber; a small lodging or habitation.
4. n. A situation; a place or position: as, a snug crib.
5. n. A house, shop, warehouse, or public house.
6. n. A box or bin for storing grain, salt, etc. See corn-crib.
7. n. A lockup.
8. n. A solid structure of timber or logs (see cribwork) secured under water to serve as a wharf, jetty, dike, or other support or barrier; also, a foundation so made with the superstructure raised upon it, as the crib in Lake Michigan from which water is supplied to Chicago.
9. n. A solidly built floating foundation or support.
10. n. An inner lining of a shaft, consisting of a frame of timbers and a backing of planks, used to keep the earth from caving in, prevent water from trickling through, etc. Also called cribbing.
11. n. A reel for winding yarn.
12. n. A division of a raft of staves, containing a thousand staves.
13. n. In the game of cribbage, a set of cards made up of two thrown from the hand of each player. See cribbage.
14. n. A theft, or the thing stolen; specifically, anything copied from an author without acknowledgment.
15. n. A literal translation of a classic author for the illegitimate use of students.
16. n. The bowl or trap of a pound-net.
17. To shut or confine as in a crib; cage; coop.
18. To line with timbers or planking: said of a shaft or pit.
19. To pilfer; purloin; steal.
20. To translate (a passage from a classic) by means of a crib. See crib, n., 16.
21. To be confined in or to a crib.
22. To make use of cribs in translating. See crib, n., 16.
23. n. Short for cribble.
24. To make up (logs, boards, or staves) into small rafts or cribs to be united later into a large raft.

Wiktionary

1. n. US A baby’s bed (British and Australasian cot) with high, often slatted, often moveable sides, suitable for a child who has outgrown a cradle or bassinet.
2. n. UK A bed for a child older than a baby.
3. n. nautical A small sleeping berth in a packet ship or other small vessel
4. n. A wicker basket; compare Moses basket.
5. n. A manger, a feeding trough for animals elevated off the earth or floor, especially one for fodder such as hay.
6. n. The baby Jesus and the manger in a creche or Nativity scene, consisting of statues of Mary, Joseph and various other characters such as the magi.
7. n. A bin for drying or storing grain, as with a corn crib.
8. n. A small room or covered structure, especially one of rough construction, used for storage or penning animals.
9. n. A confined space, as with a cage or office-cubicle
10. n. obsolete A job, a position; (British), an appointment.
11. n. A hovel, a roughly constructed building best suited to the shelter of animals but used for human habitation.
12. n. slang One’s residence, or where one normally hangs out.
13. n. A boxy structure traditionally built of heavy wooden timbers, 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.
14. n. usually plural A collection of quotes or references for use in speaking, for for assembling a written document, or as an aid to a project of some sort; a crib sheet.
15. n. obsolete A minor theft, extortion or embezzlement, with or without criminal intent.
16. n. cribbage : Short for the card game cribbage.
17. n. cribbage : The cards discarded by players and used by the dealer.
18. n. cryptography A known piece of information corresponding to a section of encrypted text, that is then used to work out the remaining sections.
19. n. New Zealand, southern A small holiday home, often near a beach and of simple construction.
20. n. Australia, New Zealand A packed lunch taken to work.
21. v. transitive To place or confine in a crib.
22. v. intransitive 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.
23. v. intransitive To install timber supports, as with cribbing.
24. v. transitive, obsolete To steal or embezzle, to cheat out of: petty thieving.
25. v. India To complain, to grumble
26. v. To crowd together, or to be confined, as if in a crib or in narrow accommodations.
27. v. intransitive, of a horse To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A manger or rack; a feeding place for animals.
2. n. A stall for oxen or other cattle.
3. n. A small inclosed bedstead or cot for a child.
4. n. A box or bin, or similar wooden structure, for storing grain, salt, etc..
5. n. A hovel; a hut; a cottage.
6. n. (Mining) A structure or frame of timber for a foundation, or for supporting a roof, or for lining a shaft.
7. n. A structure of logs to be anchored with stones; -- used for docks, pier, dams, etc.
8. n. Canada A small raft of timber.
9. n. colloq. A small theft; anything purloined; a plagiarism; hence, a translation or key, etc., to aid a student in preparing or reciting his lessons.
10. n. Cant A miner's luncheon.
11. n. (Card Playing) The discarded cards which the dealer can use in scoring points in cribbage.
12. v. To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.
13. v. colloq. To pilfer or purloin; hence, to steal from an author; to appropriate; to plagiarize.
14. v. rare To crowd together, or to be confined, as in a crib or in narrow accommodations.
15. v. College Cant To make notes for dishonest use in recitation or examination.
16. v. To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind; -- said of a horse.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. use a crib, as in an exam
2. n. a bin or granary for storing grains
3. n. the cards discarded by players at cribbage
4. n. baby bed with high sides made of slats
5. v. take unauthorized (intellectual material)
6. n. a literal translation used in studying a foreign language (often used illicitly)
7. n. a card game (usually for two players) in which each player is dealt six cards and discards one or two
8. v. line with beams or planks