FinnHun Finnish-Hungarian-English on-line dictionary and thesaurus

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n (US) A baby’s bed (British and Australasian cot) with high, often slatted, often moveable sides, suitable for a child who has outgrown a cradle or bassinet.

n (British) A bed for a child older than a baby.

n (nautical) A small sleeping berth in a packet ship or other small vessel

n A wicker basket; compare Moses basket.

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

n 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.

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

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

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

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

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

n (slang) One’s residence, or where one normally hangs out.

n 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.

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

n (obsolete) A minor theft, extortion or embezzlement, with or without criminal intent.

n (cribbage): Short for the card game cribbage.

n (cribbage): The cards discarded by players and used by the dealer.

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

n (New Zealand|southern) A small holiday home, often near a beach and of simple construction.

n (Australia|New Zealand) A packed lunch taken to work.

v (transitive) To place or confine in a crib.

v (intransitive) 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.

v (intransitive) To install timber supports, as with cribbing.

v (transitive|obsolete) To steal or embezzle, to cheat out of: petty thieving.

v (Indian English) To complain, to grumble

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

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