Lexicographical Neighbors of Cribbles
Literary usage of Cribbles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sardinia and Its Resources by Robert Tennant (1885)
"... and 45 per cent of zinc, per ton, All the ores are passed through " cribbles„,
and any lead ore, which does not average more than 30 per cent of lead, ..."
2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: In by Sandford Nevile, Great Britain Court of King's Bench (1835)
"John, House and Offices, Garden and Pleasure rector to pa) • 35 IT 6 -*-J* Glebe
Land, Parson's Woods, cribbles and ..."
3. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1887)
"A Clerk's a Clerk, that is а соте who «cribbles All day, and then goes in for
one, and "jigger," And not a mere machine who feeds by nibbles, Slaves like a ..."
4. A History of the New York Stage from the First Performance in 1732 to 1901 by Thomas Allston Brown (1903)
"22. as Fanny cribbles and Katherine Klopper. Polly Marshall was a favorite at
this theatre. She excelled in that vein of light comedy and burlesque which ..."
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