资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Crib \Crib\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cribbed} (kr?bd); p. pr. & vb.
n. {Cribbing}.]
1. To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to
cramp.
If only the vital energy be not cribbed or cramped.
--I. Taylor.
Now I am cabin'd, cribbed, confined. --Shak.
2. To pilfer or purloin; hence, to steal from an author; to
appropriate; to plagiarize; as, to crib a line from
Milton. [Colloq.]
Child, being fond of toys, cribbed the necklace.
--Dickens.
资料来源 : WordNet®
cribbed
See {crib}
crib
n 1: baby bed with high sides [syn: {cot}]
2: a literal translation used in studying a foreign language
(often used illicitly) [syn: {pony}, {trot}]
3: a card game in which each player is dealt 6 cards and
discards one or two to make up the crib [syn: {cribbage}]
v 1: use a crib, as in an exam
2: take unauthorized (intellectual material)
3: line with beams or planks; "crib a construction hole"
[also: {cribbing}, {cribbed}]