ppl. a. [f. CRIB v. + -ED1.] Confined in a crib, etc. (see CRIB v.); fig. confined within narrow space or limits.
1863. W. Phillips, Speeches, xii. 266. This limited, cribbed, cabined, isolated American civilization.
1872. Morley, Voltaire (1886), 44. The narrowness of the cribbed deck that we are doomed to tread.
