A small room or covered structure, especially one of rough construction, used for storage or penning animals.
A confined space, as with a cage or office-cubicle
(obsolete) A job, a position; (British), an appointment.
A hovel, a roughly constructed building best suited to the shelter of animals but used for human habitation.
(slang) One’s residence, or where one normally hangs out.
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.
(plural) A collection of quotes or references for use in speaking, for assembling a written document, or as an aid to a project of some sort; a crib sheet.
(obsolete) A minor theft, extortion or embezzlement, with or without criminal intent.
(slang) A house or dwelling place of an individual.
(slang) A cheat sheet or old test from a teacher. Highly used in college and in some high schools.
Verb
(transitive) To place or confine in a crib.
To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.
(transitive) 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.
(intransitive) To install timber supports, as with cribbing.
(transitive, obsolete) To steal or embezzle, to cheat out of.
