11. (Card Playing) The discarded cards which the dealer can use in scoring points in cribbage.
Crib, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cribbed (kr&ibreve;bd); p. pr. & vb. n. Cribbing.] 1. To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.
If only the vital energy be not cribbed or cramped.
I. Taylor.
Now I am cabin'd, cribbed, confined.
Shak.
2. To pilfer or purloin; hence, to steal from an author; to appropriate; to plagiarize; as, to crib a line from Milton. [Colloq.]
Child, being fond of toys, cribbed the necklace.
Dickens.
Crib, v. i. 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.