cribbing
Americannoun
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Also called wind-sucking. Also called crib-biting. Veterinary Medicine. an injurious habit in which a horse bites its manger and as a result swallows air.
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Mining.
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a timber lining, closely spaced, as in a shaft or raise.
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pieces of timber for lining a shaft, raise, etc.
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Building Trades, Civil Engineering. a system of cribs, as for retaining earth or for a building or the like being moved or having its foundations rebuilt.
Etymology
Origin of cribbing
Example Sentences
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I’ve done the same a hundred times, cribbing from emails to compose essays, from text messages to finish poems.
From Salon • Feb. 9, 2025
Thomas Weber, an expert on German history, pointed out that in modern Germany one far-right party has been cribbing wholesale from parts of the Nazi party manifesto.
From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2024
Firefighters secured the truck with “a grip hoist, grade 100 chain, and 6-inch vehicle strap cribbing, straps to keep the massively heavy vehicle from rolling any further forward,” fire officials posted on Facebook.
From Washington Times • Dec. 26, 2023
The discipline already had a “massive plagiarism problem” with students borrowing computer code from friends or cribbing it from the internet, said MacKellar.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 9, 2023
Instead they had laid cribbing of short poles at intervals and on each of these had built a platform of branches.
From Brood of the Dark Moon by Diffin, Charles Willard
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