cribbing

/ˈkɹɪbɪŋ/ · verb

Meaning

To place or confine in a crib.
To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.
To collect one or more passages and/or references for use in a speech, written document or as an aid for some task; to create a crib sheet.
To plagiarize; to copy; to cheat.
To install timber supports, as with cribbing.
To steal or embezzle, to cheat out of.
The members used to build a (structural) crib, usually of timbers or logs, but also of concrete, steel or even plastic; cribwork.
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,
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.
A self-injurious tendency of certain horses to swallow air while slobbering and biting onto objects in and about their enclosure; cribbing and windsucking are regarded as equine forms of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
An act of plagiarism.

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