Hut vs Crib - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between hut and crib

is that hut is a small wooden shed while crib is 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.

As verbs the difference between hut and crib

is that hut is to put into a hut while crib is to place or confine in a crib.

hut

English

Noun

(en noun)

a small wooden shed

a primitive dwelling

Verb

(hutt)

(rare, archaic, transitive) to put into a hut

to hut troops in winter quarters

(rare, archaic, intransitive) to take shelter in a hut

* Washington Irving

The troops hutted among the heights of Morristown.

Anagrams

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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

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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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