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crib 1. a representation of the manger in which the infant Jesus was laid at birth 2. Informal chiefly Brit a translation of a foreign text or a list of answers used by students, often illicitly, as an aid in lessons, examinations, etc. 3. short for cribbage 4. Cribbage the discard pile 5. a storage area for floating logs contained by booms crib [krib] (civil engineering) The space between two successive ties along a railway track. (engineering) Any structure composed of a layer of timber or steel joists laid on the ground, or two layers across each other, to spread a load. Any structure composed of frames of timber placed horizontally on top of each other to form a wall. (geology) How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Everything was ship-shape now, and we sat down on either side of the crib to stand our watch. Agafea Mihalovna went out on tiptoe; the nurse let down the blind, chased a fly out from under the muslin canopy of the crib, and a bumblebee struggling on the window-frame, and sat down waving a faded branch of birch over the mother and the baby. I flung aside a crib of Horace I had been reading, and began to clench my fists, to bite my lips, and to pace the room. |
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