[{"word":"cribbing","phonetic":"/ˈkɹɪbɪŋ/","phonetics":[{"text":"/ˈkɹɪbɪŋ/","audio":""}],"meanings":[{"partOfSpeech":"verb","definitions":[{"definition":"To place or confine in a crib.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"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.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"I cribbed the recipe from the Food Network site, but made a few changes of my own."},{"definition":"To plagiarize; to copy; to cheat.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To install timber supports, as with cribbing.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To steal or embezzle, to cheat out of.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"(Indian English) To complain, to grumble","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To crowd together, or to be confined, as if in a crib or in narrow accommodations.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"(of a horse) To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"partOfSpeech":"noun","definitions":[{"definition":"The members used to build a (structural) crib, usually of timbers or logs, but also of concrete, steel or even plastic; cribwork.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"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,","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"After the Loma Prieta earthquake, they had to put cribbing under portions of San Francisco's Embarcadero Freeway, for fear it would collapse."},{"definition":"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.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"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.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"An act of plagiarism.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"license":{"name":"CC BY-SA 3.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"},"sourceUrls":["https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/crib","https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cribbing"]}]