Definition of Cribbles

1. cribble [v] - See also: cribble

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cribbles

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

Literary usage of Cribbles

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

1. Sardinia and Its Resources by Robert Tennant (1885)
"... and 45 per cent of zinc, per ton, All the ores are passed through " cribbles„, and any lead ore, which does not average more than 30 per cent of lead, ..."

2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: In by Sandford Nevile, Great Britain Court of King's Bench (1835)
"John, House and Offices, Garden and Pleasure rector to pa) • 35 IT 6 -*-J* Glebe Land, Parson's Woods, cribbles and ..."

3. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1887)
"A Clerk's a Clerk, that is а соте who «cribbles All day, and then goes in for one, and "jigger," And not a mere machine who feeds by nibbles, Slaves like a ..."

4. A History of the New York Stage from the First Performance in 1732 to 1901 by Thomas Allston Brown (1903)
"22. as Fanny cribbles and Katherine Klopper. Polly Marshall was a favorite at this theatre. She excelled in that vein of light comedy and burlesque which ..."

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