Word Meanings - CRIBBING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A framework of timbers and plank backing for a shaft lining, to prevent caving, percolation of water, etc. 4. A vicious habit of a horse; crib-biting. The horse lays hold of the crib or manger with his teeth and draws air into the stomach with a

Additional info about word: CRIBBING

A framework of timbers and plank backing for a shaft lining, to prevent caving, percolation of water, etc. 4. A vicious habit of a horse; crib-biting. The horse lays hold of the crib or manger with his teeth and draws air into the stomach with a grunting sound. (more info) 1. The act of inclosing or confining in a crib or in close quarters. 2. Purloining; stealing; plagiarizing.

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• LINGET
  An ingot.
• LINGISM
  A mode of treating certain diseases, as obesity, by gymnastics; -- proposed by Pehr Henrik Ling, a Swede. See Kinesiatrics.
• WATER-BEARER
  The constellation Aquarius.
• PLANKING
  1. The act of laying planks; also, planks, collectively; a series of planks in place, as the wooden covering of the frame of a vessel. 2. The act of splicing slivers. See Plank, v. t., 4.
• LINNE
  Flax. See Linen.
• BITE
  bizan, G. beissen, Goth. beitan, Icel. bita, Sw. bita, Dan. bide, L. 1. To seize with the teeth, so that they enter or nip the thing seized; to lacerate, crush, or wound with the teeth; as, to bite an apple; to bite a crust; the dog bit a man.
• BACKWORM
  A disease of hawks. See Filanders. Wright.
• HORSE-LEECHERY
  The business of a farrier; especially, the art of curing the diseases of horses.
• WATERWORT
  Any plant of the natural order Elatineæ, consisting of two genera , mostly small annual herbs growing in the edges of ponds. Some have a peppery or acrid taste.
• CAVO-RILIEVO
  Hollow relief; sculpture in relief within a sinking made for the purpose, so no part of it projects beyond the plain surface around.
• WATER SHREW
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• BACKSTRESS
  A female baker.
• BITTERWEED
  A species of Ambrosia ; Roman worm wood. Gray.
• WATER-TIGHT
  So tight as to retain, or not to admit, water; not leaky.
• WATER RAT
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• CAVEATING
  Shifting the sword from one side of an adversary's sword to the other.
• PREVENTATIVE
  That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
• CAVEAT
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• WATER CRAKE
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• HABITURE
  Habitude.
• COLLINEATION
  The act of aiming at, or directing in a line with, a fixed object. Johnson.
• SAXICAVA
  Any species of marine bivalve shells of the genus Saxicava. Some of the species are noted for their power of boring holes in limestone and similar rocks.
• BRANDLING; BRANDLIN
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• DUCKLING
  A young or little duck. Gay.
• TOOLING
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• HOBIT
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• PICKABACK
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• MEDULLIN
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• SCRAMBLING
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  Cloth for towels, especially such as is woven in long pieces to be cut at will, as distinguished from that woven in towel lengths with borders, etc.
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