Definition of: crib

(krib) noun
1. A rack or manger.
2. A stall for cattle.
3. A child's bedstead, with side railings.
4. A box, bin, or small building for grain, having slat or openwork sides.
5. A small raft.
6. A frame of wood or timber, used to retain a bank of earth.
7. Colloq. A petty theft, or the thing taken; plagiarism.
8. A translation or other unauthorized aid in study.
9. A house, cottage, lodging, etc.
10. In cribbage, the four discarded cards counted by the dealer. See CRIBBAGE.
11. A wickerwork basket.
—v. cribbed, crib·bing v.t.
1. To enclose in or as in a crib; confine closely.
2. To line or bolster, as the walls of a pit, with timbers or planking.
3. Colloq. To take and pass off as one's own, as an answer or a piece of writing; copy; plagiarize.
4. Colloq. To steal; purloin.
5. In logging, to form (logs) into a raft, as for towing.
6. Colloq. To translate with the aid of a crib.
—v.i.
7. Colloq. To use a crib in translating.
8. To crib–bite. [OE cribb]
—crib′ber noun