Definition of Cribbled

1. covered with dots [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cribbled

crib lizards
crib mattress
crib mattresses
crib note
crib sheet
crib sheets
cribbage
cribbage board
cribbages
cribbed
cribber
cribbers
cribbing
cribbings
cribble
cribbled (current term)
cribbles
cribbling
cribella
cribellum
crible
criblike
cribra
cribrate
cribration
cribrations
cribriform
cribriform area of the renal papilla
cribriform fascia
cribriform hymen

Literary usage of Cribbled

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1839)
"... some tapestry, painted glass, a paît of the inclosing wall of old flinty stones, and cribbled bricks — a mixture of ancient and modern ruins. ..."

2. Lexicon to the English Poetical Works of John Milton by Laura Emma Lockwood (1907)
"Scribble, vb. tr. to mark hastily or incorrectly ; the Sphere with Centric and Eccentric «cribbled o'er : PL vin. 83. ..."

3. Explorations of the Highlands of the Brazil: With a Full Account of the Gold by Richard Francis Burton (1869)
"The barreiro, or salt lick, cribbled the sides, but we lost the aluminous white rash wliich distinguished the Rio das ..."

4. The Practice of Typography: A Treatise on Title-pages, with Numerous by Theodore Low De Vinne (1902)
"When the solid background had been cribbled, the block needed less ink and less force for impression. The tone, changed from black to blackish gray, ..."

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