Lexicographical Neighbors of Cribbled
Literary usage of Cribbled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1839)
"... some tapestry, painted glass, a paît of the inclosing wall of old flinty
stones, and cribbled bricks — a mixture of ancient and modern ruins. ..."
2. Lexicon to the English Poetical Works of John Milton by Laura Emma Lockwood (1907)
"Scribble, vb. tr. to mark hastily or incorrectly ; the Sphere with Centric and
Eccentric «cribbled o'er : PL vin. 83. ..."
3. Explorations of the Highlands of the Brazil: With a Full Account of the Gold by Richard Francis Burton (1869)
"The barreiro, or salt lick, cribbled the sides, but we lost the aluminous white
rash wliich distinguished the Rio das ..."
4. The Practice of Typography: A Treatise on Title-pages, with Numerous by Theodore Low De Vinne (1902)
"When the solid background had been cribbled, the block needed less ink and less
force for impression. The tone, changed from black to blackish gray, ..."
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