Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1952 (SND Vol. III). Includes material from the 1976 supplement.
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Quotation dates: 1761, 1822-1837, 1896-1946
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CRIB, Cribb, n.1 Used as in Eng., but Sc. has the following extended meanings:
1. A (hen's) coop. Known to Cai.7, Bnff.2, Abd.2, Ags.17 1940.Sc. 1761 Edb. Ev. Courant (11 March):
Hen-house, cribbs for feeding all sorts of fowls.Ags. 1822 Edb. Mag. (Dec.) 658/2:
Its [kitchen dresser's] lowest department is a wooden grating, named the hen's crib, where two or three of these domestic fowls are generally set hatching.Fif. 1896 “G. Setoun” R. Urquhart vi.:
Eggs taken from the “crib” that very morning.Fif. 1946 (per Fif.14):
A'm needin ither twa hen's cribs.
†2. The stomach. Given in Farmer and Henley as 17th cent. Eng. slang.wm.Sc. 1835–37 Laird of Logan I. 82:
Leave some elbow room in your crib — you'll in a' likelihood get bread and cheese after them [porridge].
†3. “A small bed-place boarded up in a recess near the kitchen fire, in which the servants sleep at night and children are often laid in the day” (Sc. a.1873 Grose MS. Add. (C) (E.D.D.)). Cf. Eng. crib, a child's bed.
†4. A bowl of broth, brose, etc. Also in use in Eng. dial. = food (E.D.D.).Rxb. 1825 Jam.2:
Haste ye, and gie me ma . . . crib, Guidwife.
