verbal subs. (old).—1. Food and drink. Cf., CRIB, sense 1.
1656. R. BROME, A Joviall Crew, Act ii.
| For all this ben CRIBBING and peck let us then, | |
| Bowse a health to the gentry cofe of the ken. |
2. (schools’ and university and general).—Stealing; purloining; using a translation. Cf., CRIB, subs., sense 4.
1862. F. W. FARRAR, St. Winifred’s, ch. xxxv. They would not call it stealing but bagging a thing, or, at the worst, CRIBBING it—concealing the villainy under a new name.
