Definition of Cribs

1. Noun. (plural of crib) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cribs

1. crib [v] - See also: crib

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cribs

cribra
cribrate
cribration
cribrations
cribriform
cribriform area of the renal papilla
cribriform fascia
cribriform hymen
cribriform plate
cribriform plate of ethmoid bone
cribriform plates
cribrose
cribrous
cribrous lamina
cribrum
cribs (current term)
cribsheet
cribsheets
cribwork
cribworks
cricetid
cricetids
cricetulus
crichtonite
cricify
cricked
cricket
cricket-bat willow
cricket ball

Literary usage of Cribs

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

1. Foundations of Bridges and Buildings by Roland Parker Davis, Henry Sylvester Jacoby (1914)
"SHEET-PILING SUPPORTED BY cribs For cofferdams which rest on hard bottom and are too large to employ internal bracing economically, a series of cribs, ..."

2. The Improvement of Rivers: A Treatise on the Methods Employed for Improving by Benjamin Franklin Thomas, David Alexander Watt (1913)
"The tops of the cribs are usually made 6 to 1o feet wide, and the width of base ... Where high cribs are built with vertical faces, and no provision is made ..."

3. The Mining Magazine (1857)
"Cast-iron cribs are, perhaps, the best, although an oak crib is very good. This tub differs from the one formerly noticed, inasmuch as there are two tiers ..."

4. Rural Affairs by John Jacob Thomas (1881)
"TIES TO cribs.—The lower ties are 1 by 12 inches, fixed 7 feet 4 inches ... The flooring of the cribs is of one inch rough boarding; ground floor of the ..."

5. Farm Buildings by Sanders Publishing Co. (Chicago) (1909)
"On this theory are designed two cribs set parallel under one roof and 12' apart. (Fig. ... The cribs are each 6' x 36' at the bottom and 8'x36' at the top. ..."

6. The world's wit and humor: an encyclopedia of the classic wit and humor of by Lionel Strachey (1906)
"... who had talked to him upon the subject, and what he had said, and how for his part he had made up his mind, and wasn't going to use cribs any more. ..."

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