Cote vs Crib - What's the difference?
cote | crib | Related terms |
A cottage or hut.
A small structure built to contain domesticated animals such as sheep, pigs or pigeons.
* Milton
(obsolete) To quote.
To go side by side with; hence, to pass by; to outrun and get before.
* Shakespeare
* 1825 , , The Talisman , A. and C. Black (1868), 37:
(Canada) A small raft made of timber.
To place or confine in a crib.
To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.
* I. Taylor
* Shakespeare
To collect one or more passages and/or references for use in a speech, written document or as an aid for some task; to create a crib sheet.
To install timber supports, as with cribbing.
(obsolete) To steal or embezzle, to cheat out of.
(Indian English) To complain, to grumble
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To crowd together, or to be confined, as if in a crib or in narrow accommodations.
* Gauden
(of a horse) To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind.
In obsolete terms the difference between cote and crib
is that cote is to quote while crib is a minor theft, extortion or embezzlement, with or without criminal intent.As a proper noun Cote
is {{surname|lang=en}.cote
English
Etymology 1
From the (etyl) cote, the feminine form of . Cognate to Dutch kot.Noun
(en noun)- Watching where shepherds pen their flocks, at eve, / In hurdled cotes .
Synonyms
* shedEtymology 2
See quote.Verb
(cot)- (Udall)
Etymology 3
Probably related to (etyl) .Verb
(cot)- A dog cotes a hare.
- (Drayton)
- We coted them on the way, and hither are they coming.
- [...]strength to pull down a bull——swiftness to cote an antelope.
Anagrams
* ----crib
English
Synonyms
* (holiday home) bach (qualifier)Derived terms
* crib mattress * crib sheet * crib death * crib boardVerb
(cribb)- if only the vital energy be not cribbed or cramped
- Now I am cabin'd, cribbed , confined.
- I cribbed the recipe from the Food Network site, but made a few changes of my own.
- It was very easy, Briggs said, to make a galley-slave of a boy all the half-year, and then score him up idle; and to crib two dinners a-week out of his board, and then score him up greedy; but that wasn’t going to be submitted to, he believed, was it?'' — Charles Dickens, ''Dombey and Son , 1848,
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- Who sought to make bishops to crib in a Presbyterian trundle bed.