noun

1. a rack, trough, or box for fodder; manger
2. a stall for cattle, oxen, etc.
3. a small house or room
4. a small bed with high sides, for a baby
5. a framework of wooden or metal bars for support or strengthening, as in a mine
6. a framework or enclosure as for storing grain
7. ☆ a structure secured under water, serving as a pier, a water intake, etc.
8. Informal
   1. a petty theft
   2. a plagiarism
   3. notes, a translation of a foreign writing, or other aids used, often dishonestly, in doing schoolwork
9. Slang the house, apartment, etc. where a person lives
10. Cribbage the cards discarded by the players and forming an extra hand for the dealer, counted for points but not played

Etymology: ME & OE, ox stall, couch, akin to Ger krippe, Frank *kripja: basic sense “what is woven or plaited, basket” < IE *grebh- < base *ger-, to wind, turn, weave; senses of “steal,” etc. < thieves' slang < orig. sense “to put in a basket”; crib from Biblical application of cribsense

transitive verb cribbed, cribbing crib′·bing

1. toshut up in or as in a crib; confine
2. to furnish with a crib or cribs
3. Informal
   1. to steal
   2. to plagiarize

intransitive verb

1. to have the habit of crib biting
2. Informal to do schoolwork dishonestly, as by using a crib