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Definition of Cribbing
1. n. The act of inclosing or confining in a crib or in close quarters.
Definition of Cribbing
1. Verb. Present participle of crib. ¹
2. Noun. The members used to build a (structural) crib, usually of timbers or logs, but also of concrete, steel or even plastic; cribwork. ¹
3. Noun. As a whole, the heavy structure built to support an existing structure from underneath, as with a mineshaft or when raising a building off its foundation, as for moving to another location, ¹
4. Noun. The cribbing used to support anything from below or on a side, as with a retaining wall, or to prop up a piece of heavy machinery. ¹
5. Noun. A self-injurious tendency of certain horses to swallow air while slobbering and biting onto objects in and about their enclosure and regarded as an equine form of obsessive-compulsive disorder. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cribbing
1. a supporting framework [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cribbing
Literary usage of Cribbing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1903)
"J. DURING the past summer, as a result of the disclosure of a bad case of cribbing
among Phillips-Andover students, while taking their examinations for ..."
2. The University Geological Survey of Kansas by Erasmus Haworth, Kansas Geological Survey (1904)
"Methods of cribbing. There are three reasons for cribbing or lining shafts, ...
The necessity of having a very strong cribbing is therefore apparent. ..."
3. The Exterior of the Horse by Armand Goubaux, Gustave Barrier (1892)
"Irregularities of Wear resulting from cribbing. If the incisors of a horse be
examined, we sometimes find irregularities of their borders, their faces, ..."
4. State Geological Survey of Kansas. [Reports] by Kansas Geological Survey (1904)
"Methods of cribbing. There are three reasons for cribbing or lining shafts, ...
The necessity of having a very strong cribbing is therefore apparent. ..."
5. The Modern Horse Doctor: Containing Practical Observations on the Causes by George H. Dadd (1856)
"TOE act of cribbing consists in grasping the crib, or a given point, ... A cribbing
horse has generally * " Although the abnormal action with horses known ..."
6. The Diseases of Animals: A Book of Brief and Popular Advice on the Care and by Nelson Slater Mayo (1920)
"cribbing cribbing, or "crib-biting,", is a habit that some horses have of grasping
some object, ... cribbing is a habit or vice. In chronic cases, the front ..."
7. The New England Farmer by Samuel W. Cole (1869)
"The causes of cribbing are not well understood. Mr. Youatt suggests that it is
sometimes induced by dressing horses in the stable, when they catch at the ..."
8. Annual Report by Ohio State Board of Agriculture (1910)
"The average date of cribbing was October 18. The yield of apples, as compared
with an average, is estimated at 43 per cent. Tobacco production per acre is ..."
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