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C — Crescentwise to Cribbage (Part 6 of 6)

1. To crowd together, or to be confined, as in a crib or in narrow accommodations. [R.]

Who sought to make . . . bishops to crib in a Presbyterian trundle bed.
Gauden.

2. To make notes for dishonest use in recitation or examination. [College Cant]

3. To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind; β€” said of a horse.

Cribbage
(Crib"bage) n. [From Crib, v. t., 2.] A game of cards, played by two or four persons, in which there is a crib. (See Crib, 11.) It is characterized by a great variety of chances.

A man's fancy would be summed up in cribbage.
John Hall.

Cribbage board, a board with holes and pegs, used by cribbage players to score their game.