cribbing English

Meaning cribbing meaning

What does cribbing mean?

cribbing noun

— The members used to build a (structural) crib, usually of timbers or logs, but also of concrete, steel or even plastic; cribwork.

— 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,

— 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.

— (ethology, horses) 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.

— self-injurious tendency of certain horses

Synonyms cribbing synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as cribbing?

cribbing English » English

wooden chock

timber pack

timber crib

stick

plagiarism

nog

lifting

crib-biting

crib

cog