Definition of "cribbing" []

• Present participle of crib. (verb)
• The members used to build a (structural) crib, usually of timbers or logs, but also of concrete, steel or even plastic; cribwork. (noun)
• 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, (noun)
• 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. (noun)
• A self-injurious tendency of certain horses to swallow air while slobbering and biting onto objects in and about their enclosure and regarded as an equine form of obsessive-compulsive disorder. (noun)

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• "Nothing about Sarah Palin cribbing notes on her hand, why?"
• "When I returned, I found him cribbing from a Lonely Planet guidebook he had hidden in his knapsack."
• "The city parks department has reconstructed the "cribbing" - a timber box that would likely have surrounded the shaft at one time."