cribbed

Verb

crib (third-person singular simple present cribs, present participle cribbing, simple past and past participle cribbed)

1. (transitive) To place or confine in a crib.
   • They may go to their beds and give themselves no trouble about their work, and yet in the morning the maids will find the kitchen swept up, and water brought in, and the men will find the horses in the stable well cleaned and curried, and perhaps a supply corn cribbed for them from the neighbours...1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 223
2. To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.
   • if only the vital energy be not cribbed or cramped1860, Isaac Taylor, “(please specify the page)”, in Ultimate Civilization and Other Essays, London: Bell and Daldy […], →OCLC
3. (transitive) 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.
   • I cribbed the recipe from the Food Network site, but made a few changes of my own.
4. (informal, transitive) To plagiarize; to copy; to cheat.
   • He then proceeded to patch his tags together with the help of his Gradus, producing an incongruous and feeble result of eight elegiac lines, the minimum quantity for his form, and finishing up with two highly moral lines extra, making ten in all, which he cribbed entire from one of his books...1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days
5. (intransitive) To install timber supports, as with cribbing.
6. (archaic, transitive) To steal or embezzle.
   • There are a brace of birds and hare, that I cribbed this morning out of a basket of game.1772, Samuel Foote, The Nabob, published 1778, act 1, page 22

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