Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A corn-sieve or riddle.
- noun Coarse meal, a little better than bran.
- To sift; cause to pass through a sieve or riddle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To cause to pass through a sieve or riddle; to sift.
- adjective obsolete Coarse.
- noun A coarse sieve or screen.
- noun obsolete Coarse flour or meal.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To pass something through a
sieve . - adjective obsolete
coarse
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Examples
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I used a piece of chalk to cribble them on the slate Stanley and I used to communicate when patients were sleeping nearby.
The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007
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He can only being lifted by two or three men and placed in the presence of his father who was very ill, but the eldest son forenamed prince was little better, so before death of his father as he can be raised to be stood by two men and can cribble slowly on even or level surface, by securing and supporting of two men on both sides.
The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok Anna Harriette Leonowens 1874
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He can only being lifted by two or three men and placed in the presence of his father who was very ill, but the eldest son forenamed prince was little better, so before death of his father as he can be raised to be stood by two men and can cribble slowly on even or level surface, by securing and supporting of two men on both sides.
The English Governess at the Siamese Court Leonowens, Anna H 1870
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"Good-morning, Miss Obloski, I have just given one dollar to a poor cribble ....
It, and Other Stories Gouverneur Morris 1914
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