? Obs. Also 6 cryble, cribel, 6–9 crible. [a. F. crible (for *cribre) 13th c., ad. L. crībrum (dim. crībellum) sieve.]
1. A sieve.
1565–73. Cooper, Thesaurus, Capisterium, a crible or sive to clense corne.
1706. Phillips, Cribble, a kind of Sieve to purge Corn.
1881. in Raymond, Mining Gloss.
† 2. That which remains in the sieve after the fine flour is sifted out; bran or coarse meal; spec. applied to a particular quality of coarse meal. Obs.
1552–71. [see b.].
1599. Minsheu, Farro, bran, the cribble of meale that is boulted or sifted out.
1629. Chapman, Juvenal, v. 139. With your familiar Crible to be fed.
1674–91. Ray, S. & E. C. Words, 94. Crible; course Meal, a degree better than Bran.
b. attrib., as in † cribble bread, bread made of this coarse meal.
1552. Huloet, Bread called chete breade, raunged bread, or cribel bread.
1571. Golding, Calvin on Ps. xxiii. 5. A shiver of cryble bred.
1577. trans. Bullinger’s Decades (1592), 243. Because wee will not eate common cribble breade.
1701. S. Jeake, Arithmetick, 74. Bread made of whole Wheat is sometimes called Cribble or Fine Ravel Bread.
