Crib

Quick meaning: Crib is a noun meaning (US) A baby’s bed with high, often slatted, often moveable sides, suitable for a child who has outgrown a cradle or bassinet.

Meaning

(US) A baby’s bed with high, often slatted, often moveable sides, suitable for a child who has outgrown a cradle or bassinet.

More Meanings

1. (British) A bed for a child older than a baby.
2. (nautical) A small sleeping berth in a packet or other small vessel.
3. A wicker basket.
4. A manger, a feeding trough for animals elevated off the earth or floor, especially one for fodder such as hay.
5. A bin for drying or storing grain, such as a corn crib.
6. A small room or covered structure, especially one of rough construction, used for storage or penning animals.
7. The baby Jesus and the manger in a creche or nativity scene, consisting of statues of Mary, Joseph and various other characters such as the magi.

Example Sentences

Where no oxen are, the crib is clean: but much increase is by the strength of the ox.

The singers were in a crib of wirework (like a large meat-safe or bird-cage) in one corner

but if I have lost my crib and get nothing in exchange I shall feel what a soft Johnny I have been.

A kitchen, a meat-house, a dairy, a crib with two stalls in the rear, one for the horse the other for the cow, were the out-buildings

Word Forms

• cribs
• cribbing
• cribbed

Synonyms for crib

Depending on context, synonyms include cot, bach, trot, pony, cribbage.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cot, pony, trot, cribbage, mattress, cradle.

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