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cribble

/ˈkɹɪbəl/

cribble noun: a coarse sieve or screen.

Noun

cribble (plural cribbles)

  1. A coarse sieve or screen.
  2. Coarse flour or meal.
    • Bread made of the whole Wheat is sometime called Cribble or fine Ravel Bread1696, Samuel Jeake, Λογιστολογία

Verb

cribble (third-person singular simple present cribbles, present participle cribbling, simple past and past participle cribbled)

  1. To pass something through a sieve.

Adjective

cribble (comparative more cribble, superlative most cribble)

  1. (obsolete) coarse
    • The gardens, with digging for novelties, are turned over and over, because we will not eat common cribble bread.1849, Henry Bullinger, H. I (translator), The Decades

cribble meaning in Tamil and Bengali

cribble in Tamil

வடிகட்டி

cribble in Bengali

একটি মোটা চালনি, পর্দা, মোটা আটা, দানা, অমসৃণ, মোটা

Forms of cribble

Noun
pluralcribbles
Verb
third-person singular presentcribbles
present participlecribbling
past participlecribbled
pastcribbled
Adjective
comparativemore cribble
superlativemost cribble

Origin of cribble

Borrowed from French crible, from Late Latin criblus (“sieve”).

Words that rhyme with cribble

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Questions about cribble

What does cribble mean?
Cribble means a coarse sieve or screen.
What is cribble in Tamil?
Cribble in Tamil is வடிகட்டி. See Cribble meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is cribble?
Cribble can be a noun, a verb or an adjective.
How do you pronounce cribble?
Cribble is pronounced /ˈkɹɪbəl/.
What is the plural of cribble?
The plural of cribble is cribbles.

Words near cribble in the dictionary

  1. cribbers
  2. cribbing
  3. cribbings
  4. Cribbins
  5. cribbiting
  6. cribble
  7. cribbled
  8. cribbles
  9. cribbling
  10. Cribbs
  11. Cribbs Causeway

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: cribble (page history and authors); cribble (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cribble (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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