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Crib vs Cratch - What's the difference?

crib | cratch |

In nautical|lang=en terms the difference between crib and cratch

is that crib is (nautical) a small sleeping berth in a packet ship or other small vessel while cratch is (nautical) the vertical planks at the forward end of the hold of a traditional english narrowboat which constrain the cargo and support the top plank or walkway.

In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between crib and cratch

is that crib is (obsolete) to steal or embezzle, to cheat out of while cratch is (obsolete) a grated crib or manger.

As nouns the difference between crib and cratch

is that crib is (us) a baby’s bed (british and australasian cot) with high, often slatted, often moveable sides, suitable for a child who has outgrown a cradle or bassinet while cratch is (obsolete) a grated crib or manger.

As verbs the difference between crib and cratch

is that crib is to place or confine in a crib while cratch is (obsolete) to scratch.

crib

English

  • (Canada) A small raft made of timber.

    • Synonyms

    * (holiday home) bach (qualifier)

    Derived terms

    * crib mattress * crib sheet * crib death * crib board

    Verb

    (cribb)
  • To place or confine in a crib.
  • To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.
  • * I. Taylor
    • if only the vital energy be not cribbed or cramped
  • * Shakespeare
    • Now I am cabin'd, cribbed , confined.
  • 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.
    • I cribbed the recipe from the Food Network site, but made a few changes of my own.
  • To install timber supports, as with cribbing.
  • (obsolete) To steal or embezzle, to cheat out of.
    • 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, Chapter 14.
  • (Indian English) To complain, to grumble
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1957 , author=L.P.Hartley , title=Hireling , chapter=xi , url= , isbn= , page=90 , passage=She calls on the neighbours, she's out half the time and doesn't answer the telephone, and when I start cribbing she just laughs.}}
  • To crowd together, or to be confined, as if in a crib or in narrow accommodations.
  • * Gauden
    • Who sought to make bishops to crib in a Presbyterian trundle bed.
  • (of a horse) To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind.

    • Derived terms

    * cribber

    Anagrams

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    cratch

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) cratchen, .

    Verb

    (es)
  • (obsolete) To scratch.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) cratche, cracche, . More at (l), (l).

    Noun

    (cratches)
  • (obsolete) A grated crib or manger.
  • * Spenser
    • Begin from first where He encradled was, / In simple cratch , wrapt in a wad of hay.
  • (nautical) The vertical planks at the forward end of the hold of a traditional English narrowboat which constrain the cargo and support the top plank or walkway.
  • *1966 , Gervis Frere-Cook, The decorative arts of the mariner :
    • The fore-end of the cargo space terminates in a triangular board, called the cratch , raised to the same height as the cabin roof and connected to it [...]
    Derived terms
    * cratch cradle