crib

A baby’s bed with high, often slatted, often moveable sides, suitable for a child who has outgrown a cradle or bassinet.

A bed for a child older than a baby.

A small sleeping berth in a packet ship or other small vessel

A wicker basket; compare Moses basket.

A manger, a feeding trough for animals elevated off the earth or floor, especially one for fodder such as hay.

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.

A bin for drying or storing grain, as with a corn crib.

A small room or covered structure, especially one of rough construction, used for storage or penning animals.

A confined space, as with a cage or office-cubicle

A job, a position; (British), an appointment.

A hovel, a roughly constructed building best suited to the shelter of animals but used for human habitation.

One’s residence, or where one normally hangs out. A house or dwelling place.

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.

(usually in the plural) A collection of quotes or references for use in speaking, for assembling a written document, or as an aid to a project of some sort; a crib sheet.

A minor theft, extortion or embezzlement, with or without criminal intent.

The card game cribbage.

The cards discarded by players and used by the dealer.

A known piece of information corresponding to a section of encrypted text, that is then used to work out the remaining sections.

A small holiday home, often near a beach and of simple construction.

A packed lunch taken to work.

A small raft made of timber.

(thieves' cant) The stomach.

A cheat sheet or past test used by students; crib sheet.

To place or confine in a crib.

To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.

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.

“I cribbed the recipe from the Food Network site, but made a few changes of my own.”

To plagiarize; to copy; to cheat.

To install timber supports, as with cribbing.

To steal or embezzle, to cheat out of.

(Indian English) To complain, to grumble

To crowd together, or to be confined, as if in a crib or in narrow accommodations.

(of a horse) To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind.