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Word entry · 4 letters

crib

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"Baby bed"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /kɹɪb/Part of speech noun, verbSorted bcirStarts with CEnds with B1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a card game (usually for two players) in which each player is dealt six cards and discards one or two

Word origin

From Middle English crib, cribbe, from Old English crib, cryb, cribb, crybb (“couch, bed; manger, stall”), from Proto-West Germanic *kribbjā, from Proto-Germanic *kribjǭ (“crib, wickerwork”), from Proto-Indo-European *grebʰ-, *gerbʰ- (“bunch, bundle, tuft, clump”), from *ger- (“to turn, twist”).

Used in a sentence

  • In two minutes I was kneeling by the child’s crib, and Sandy was dispatching servants here, there, and everywhere, all over the palace. I took in the situation almost at a glance -- membranous croup!
  • A kitchen, a meat-house, a dairy, a crib with two stalls in the rear, one for the horse the other for the cow, were the out-buildings
  • Where no oxen are, the crib is clean: but much increase is by the strength of the ox.

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