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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Crib \Crib\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cribbed} (kr?bd); p. pr & vb
n. {Cribbing}.]
1. To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to
cramp.
If only the vital energy be not cribbed or cramped.
--I. Taylor.
Now I am cabin'd, cribbed, confined. --Shak.
2. To pilfer or purloin; hence to steal from an author; to
appropriate; to plagiarize; as to crib a line from
Milton. [Colloq.]
Child, being fond of toys, cribbed the necklace.
--Dickens.
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