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Definition: CRIBBING |
CRIBBINGNoun1. A vicious habit of a horse; crib-biting. The horse lays hold of the crib or manger with his teeth and draws air into the stomach with a grunting sound. 2. A framework of timbers and plank backing for a shaft lining, to prevent caving, percolation of water, etc. 3. Purloining; stealing; plagiarizing. 4. The act of inclosing or confining in a crib or in close quarters. Personal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Crib |
| Domain | Definition |
Building & Civil Engineering | Log which is keyed-in to anchor as a retaining wall or revetment. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | A)a raft or a section of a raft; b)a boom of logs. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. The construction of cribs, or timbers laid at right angles to each other, sometimes filled with earth, as a roof support or as a support for machinery b. The close setting of timber supports when shaft sinking through loose ground. The timber is usually square or rectangular and practically no ground is exposed. The method is also used for constructing ore chutes. See also:barring; close timbering; forepoling c. A method of timbering used primarily to rectify a mistake of removing too great a percentage of the coal on the advance, and has the effect of replacing part of the coal. Some are made by using timbers in pigpen style; first laying timbers one way then placing other timbers across the first. This is continued until the area between the bottom and the roof is filled and wedged tight. Others are made by laying a layer of timbers first in one direction, then another layer across at right angles to the bottom layer. Space between the timbers in a layer varies according to requirements. The hollow type are generally filled with gob.Syn:penning. (references) |
Transportation | Metal or wood pieces or framing placed under or against loading to support, stabilize or hold it in position. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: CRIBBING |
| English words defined with "CRIBBING": Crib-biter, Crib-biting ♦ Wind-sucking. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "CRIBBING": HOUSE-MOVER SUPERVISOR ♦ SAFETY ENGINEER, MINES ♦ TIMBER FRAMER, timber repairer. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Southeast Missouri Farms Project. Privy erection. Placing wood cribbing in privy well. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "CRIBBING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "CRIBBING" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "CRIBBING": temporary cribbing. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
cribbing | 22 |
horse cribbing | 20 |
collar cribbing | 6 |
cribbing muzzle | 4 |
cribbing horse in | 3 |
concrete cribbing | 2 |
cribbing equine | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "CRIBBING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | flåde af sammenbundne stammer (crib). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | stapelondersteuning (supporting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | lautta (ferry, raft), kehälautta (crib). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | sommier (cross-beam), quadrillage, brelle (crib), bois d'ancrage (log crib construction). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Zange (claw, double lock, forceps, nipper, nippers, pincers, pliers, tones, tongs), Schere (claw, clippers, divide, nipper, pincer, scissors, scissors [Pl.], shear, shears, wire cutters), Ringfloß (crib), Pfeilerausbau (supporting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ποτάμιον ζεύγμα (crib). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | tronchetto di ancoraggio (anchor log, log crib construction), palo di ancoraggio (anchor log, log crib construction), fodero (case, scabbard, sheath). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ibbingcray parte de jangada (crib), jangada (float, raft), dique flutuante de toros (crib). (various references) pilotes de anclaje (anchor log, log crib construction), estacones de anclaje (anchor log, log crib construction), balsa (balsa, balsa wood, ferry, ferryboat, float, pond, raft, rettery, swamp). (various references) flotte (float, raft). (various references) kopya (carbon copy, copy, crib, ditto, double, duplicate, duplication, exemplar, facsimile, image, likeness, manifold, printing out, repetition, replica, replication, repro, spit, tracing, transcript, transcription, trot). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "CRIBBING": cribbings. (additional references) | |
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"CRIBBING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: clibbig, crabing, Cribben, Cribbens, Cribbin. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-b-c-g-i-i-n-r" | |
-1 letter: bribing, ribbing. | |
-2 letters: ricing. | |
-3 letters: bring, icing, iring, ricin. | |
-4 letters: brig, brin, crib, girn, grin, ring. | |
-5 letters: bib, big, bin, cig, gib, gin, nib, rib, rig, rin. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-b-c-g-i-i-n-r" | |
+1 letter: cribbings. | |
+2 letters: scribbling. | |
+3 letters: scribblings, subscribing. | |
+4 letters: blackbirding. | |
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