Crib

Crib may refer to:

Structures

• Bach (New Zealand), a type of modest beach house, called a crib in the southern half of the South Island e.g. Otago and Southland
• Box crib, a wooden frame used to stabilise a heavy object during a rescue, jacking, construction, or moving operation
• Corn crib, a granary for drying and storing corn
• Crib barn, a type of barn once commonly found throughout the U.S. south and southeast regions
• Crib bridge, a bridge built of logs or stones stacked like log cabins
• Crib dam (or timber crib dam), a dam built with heavy timbers in the manner of a log house
• Crib lighthouse, a type of lighthouse whose structure rests on a concrete or masonry foundation supported with wooden beams
• Crib pier, a type of pier built with supporting columns constructed like log cabins
• Crib wall, a gravity type retaining wall built of precast concrete slabs
• Water crib, an offshore structure that supplies water to an onshore pumping station

Furniture

• Crib, an American English term for an infant bed
• Manger, a trough or box to hold food for animals

Other uses

• Ciani Crib, a single seat, high performance glider
• Crib, a mid-morning break for a snack, in Cornish dialect
• Crib, alternate term for a nativity scene, a depiction of the birth of Jesus as described in the gospels of Matthew and Luke
• Crib (cryptanalysis), a sample of known plaintext in codebreaking
• Crib Goch, a knife-edged arête in Gwynedd, Wales
• Crib sheet, a concise set of notes for quick reference—see cheat sheet
• Cribbage, a card game
• Cribbing (horse), a bad habit of some horses

See also

• Cribs (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles containing Crib