A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Crib(e, Cryb, n. [ME. crib(be, cryb(be, crybe, OE. cryb.] a. A crib for fodder. b. A basket or box.c1420 Wynt. iv. 2659.
His bestys twa … Till a cryb [C. cribe] that thare he made … He band wp, and gawe tbame hay Ib. v. 11.
In a cryb syne layde he was 1491 Acta Conc. 173/1.
The accioune … for the brikin of the said Johns biris and cribis a1508 Kennedy Pass. Christ 158.
In the stabill thai fand the bony barne With his moder, in cribe allane Id. Asl. MS. II. 274/52.
Blist be thi handis that wande him in the crib 1513 Doug. x. Prol. 110.
Set thou in cryb betwix twa bestis was laid 1581 Hamilton Cath. Tr. 83.
Gif the thrie vyse men came to vorship Christ lying in the cribe c1590 J. Stewart 236 § 147.
Moyses, flottand in ane cribe of trie
