Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A device which is buckled around a horse's throat to prevent cribbing.
- noun One who cribs.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A horse that has the habit of cribbing.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
cribs from others; aplagiarist . - noun A horse that has the habit of
cribbing (seizing a solid object with the teeth and drawing in wind).
Etymologies
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Examples
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** Possibly signalling a shift in Conor from Dylan cribber to ODB biter?
Black Market Kidneys » Please Write About The Music, Bright Eyes Writers 2005
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The vote-cribber continues insensible to the admonition.
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The dead man is Milman Mingle, the vote-cribber, who died of a wound he received at the hands of an antagonist, whom he was endeavoring to "block out" while going to the polls to cast his vote.
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"I gave him a few shillings, he followed me to the gate, and left me muttering, 'Go, inquire of the vote-cribber.'"
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Tom has a vote, but declares he will not give it to the vote-cribber's party.
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"Tom is about to leave us," says the old sailor, by way of diverting the vote-cribber's attention.
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Sleepyhorn, Milman Mingle, the vote-cribber, on his right; there, on the other, sits Mr. Snivel and Mr. Keepum.
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Mingle, the vote-cribber, whose broad, savage face looks out at a small guard trap.
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Now there appears in the doorway, the stalworth figure of the vote-cribber, who, with sullen face, advances mechanically toward Tom, pauses and regards him with an air of suspicion.
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"Them's my sentiments -- exactly," interposes the vote-cribber, his burly, scarred face, and crispy red hair and beard, forming a striking picture in the pale light.
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