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 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 (cryptography) A known piece of informationcorresponding 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.