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present participle and gerund of crib examples
countable and uncountable, plural cribbings
The members used to build a (structural) crib, usually of timbers or logs, but also of concrete, steel or even plastic; cribwork. examples
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, quotations examples
If the structure is to be raised in place without relocation, once it is raised to the desired elevation the jacks are replaced with timber cribbing.
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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. examples
(ethology, equestrianism) 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. quotations examples
[…] cribbings from Leonardo's notebooks […]
1976, Bernice Rose, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), Drawing Now (issue 2, page 19)