Substantiv
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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.
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A bed for a child older than a baby.
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A small sleeping berth in a packet ship or other small vessel.
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A wicker basket; compare Moses basket.
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A manger, a feeding trough for animals elevated off the earth or floor, especially one for fodder such as hay.
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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.
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A bin for drying or storing grain, as with a corn crib.
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A small room or covered structure, especially one of rough construction, used for storage or penning animals.
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A confined space, as with a cage or office-cubicle.
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A job, a position; British, an appointment.
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A hovel, a roughly constructed building best suited to the shelter of animals but used for human habitation.
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One’s residence, or where one normally hangs out.
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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.
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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.
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A minor theft, extortion or embezzlement, with or without criminal intent.
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Short for the card game cribbage.
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The cards discarded by players and used by the dealer.
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A known piece of information corresponding to a section of encrypted text, that is then used to work out the remaining sections.
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A small holiday home, often near a beach and of simple construction.
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A packed lunch taken to work.
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Verb
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To place or confine in a crib.
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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.
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To install timber supports, as with cribbing.
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To steal or embezzle, to cheat out of: petty thieving.
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To complain, to grumble.
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To crowd together, or to be confined, as if in a crib or in narrow accommodations.
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To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind.
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