crib

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a card game, usually for two players, in which each player is dealt six cards and discards one or two

   We spent the rainy afternoon playing crib.

2. 2
   noun

   the cards discarded by players at cribbage

   I put the ace of hearts in the crib.

3. 3
   noun

   baby bed with high sides made of slats

   We put the newborn in the crib.

4. 4
   noun

   a bin or granary for storing grains

   The farm had a plastic crib for the oats.

From Middle English crib, cribbe, from Old English crib, cryb, cribb, crybb (“couch, bed; manger, stall”), from Proto-West Germanic *kribbjā, from Proto-Germanic *kribjǭ (“crib, wickerwork”), from Proto-Indo-European *grebʰ-, *gerbʰ- (“bunch, bundle, tuft, clump”), from *ger- (“to turn, twist”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Kräbbe, Krääb, Krääf (“crib”), West Frisian krêbe (“crib”), Dutch krib (“crib, manger”), German Krippe (“rack, crib”), Danish krybbe (“crib”), Icelandic krubba (“crib”). Doublet of crèche. The sense of ‘stealing, taking notes, plagiarize’ seems to have developed out of th...

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