Cribbing

Definitions

1. The members used to build a (structural) crib, usually of timbers or logs, but also of concrete, steel or even plastic; cribwork.
   countable, uncountable
2. As a whole, the heavy structure built to support an existing structure from underneath, as with a mineshaft or when raising a building off its foundation, as for moving to another location,
   countable, uncountable
3. The cribbing used to support anything from below or on a side, as with a retaining wall, or to prop up a piece of heavy machinery.
   countable, uncountable
4. A self-injurious tendency of certain horses to swallow air while slobbering and biting onto objects in and about their enclosure; cribbing and windsucking are regarded as equine forms of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
   countable, uncountable
5. An act of plagiarism.
   countable, uncountable

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Examples

“After the Loma Prieta earthquake, they had to put⟳ cribbing under portions of San Francisco's Embarcadero Freeway, for fear it would collapse.”

“US Army Corps of Engineers site If the structure⟳ is to be raised in place⟳ without relocation, once it is raised to the desired elevation the jacks are replaced with timber cribbing.”

“[…] cribbings from Leonardo's notebooks […]”

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