cribwork

American  

[krib-wurk] / ˈkrɪbˌwɜrk /

noun

Building Trades, Civil Engineering.

1. a system of cribs; cribbing.

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cribwork British  

/ ˈkrɪbˌwɜːk /

noun

1. another name for crib

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Etymology

Origin of cribwork

crib + work

Example Sentences

To enter the lake from river St Clair two channels have been provided, with retaining walls of cribwork, one for upward, the other for downward bound vessels.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various

Owing, however, to the fact that the price of timber has increased considerably, whilst that of Portland cement has been reduced, durable concrete superstructures are beginning to be substituted for the rapidly decaying cribwork structures.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various

He sank brush with hundreds of bags of sand, made cribwork filled with whatever rubbish came to his hand, and soon he had the makings of a temporary dam, rude, but effective.

From Desert Conquest or, Precious Waters by Rowe, Clarence H. (Clarence Herbert)

Sometimes when the hogán is unbearably smoky a rough chimney-like structure, consisting of a rude cribwork, is placed about this smoke hole.

From Navaho Houses, pages 469-518 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898 by Mindeleff, Cosmos

Normally five or six sets of beams extended this cribwork almost to the ground level.

From Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado by United States. Dept. of the Interior