Crib vs Drib - What's the difference?

In lang=en terms the difference between crib and drib

is that crib is to install timber supports, as with cribbing while drib is to entice step by step.

As nouns the difference between crib and drib

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 drib is a drop.

As verbs the difference between crib and drib

is that crib is to place or confine in a crib while drib is to cut off; chop off.

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

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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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drib

English

Etymology 1

From dialectal English drib (compare also drub), a variant from (etyl) . More at (l).

Verb

(dribb)

To cut off; chop off.

To cut off little by little; cheat by small and reiterated tricks; purloin.

To entice step by step.

* Dryden

With daily lies she dribs thee into cost.

To appropriate unlawfully; to embezzle.

* Dryden

He who drives their bargain dribs a part.

(archery) To shoot directly at short range.

(archery) To shoot at a mark at short range.

(archery) To shoot (a shaft) so as to pierce on the descent.

(Sir Philip Sidney)

To beat; thrash; drub.

To scold.

To strike another player's marble when playing from the trigger.

Etymology 2

From a variant of drip.

Noun

(en noun)

A drop.

(Jonathan Swift)