1. The action of the verb CRIB.
1791. Bentham, Panopt., 122. Cribbing, a vice thought hitherto congenial to schools.
1892. Pall Mall Gaz., 25 June, 7/1. The cribbing and warehousing of grain.
2. = Crib-biting: see CRIB v. 9.
1864. in Webster.
3. That which is ‘cribbed’ or pilfered.
1837. Major Richardson, Brit. Legion, ix. (ed. 2), 225. A horse he had contrived to purchase out of his cribbings from me.
4. Mining. Timbering forming the lining of a shaft, etc.; cribwork.
1841. J. Holland, Collieries (ed. 2), 181. The sinking is then resumed, and … another circuit of cribbing is laid.
† 5. Thieves’ cant. Provender, provisions. Obs.
1641. Brome, Joviall Crew, II. Wks. 1873, III. 388. For all this bene Cribbing and Peck let us then, Bowse a health to the Gentry Cofe of the Ken.
