Crib vs. Cradle: What's the Difference?

A bed with high sides for a young child or baby.

A small low bed for an infant, often furnished with rockers.

A small building, usually with slatted sides, for storing corn.

The earliest period of life

A rack or trough for fodder; a manger.

A place of origin; a birthplace

A stall for cattle.

A framework of wood or metal used to support something, such as a ship undergoing construction or repair.

A small crude cottage or room.

A framework used to protect an injured limb.

(Slang) One's home.

A low flat framework that rolls on casters, used by a mechanic working beneath an automobile. Also called creeper.

A framework to support or strengthen a mine or shaft.

The part of a telephone that contains the connecting switch upon which the receiver and mouthpiece unit is supported.

A wicker basket.

A frame projecting above the blade of a scythe, used to catch grain as it is cut so that it can be laid flat.

A petty theft.

A scythe equipped with such a frame.

Plagiarism.

A boxlike device furnished with rockers, used for washing gold-bearing dirt.

See pony.

To place or retain in a cradle.

See cheat sheet.

To care for or nurture in infancy.

(Games) A set of cards made up from discards by each player in cribbage, used by the dealer.

To hold or support protectively

To confine or cramp.

(Sports) In hockey, to keep possession of (the puck) by moving the stick back and forth to prevent the puck from sliding away.

To furnish with a crib.

(Sports) In lacrosse, to keep possession of (the ball) by moving the stick back and forth to prevent the ball from falling to the ground or resting too low in the webbing for easy release.

To plagiarize (an idea or answer, for example).

To reap (grain) with a cradle.

To steal.

To place or support (a ship, for example) in a cradle.

To plagiarize; cheat.

To wash (gold-bearing dirt) in a cradle.

(US) A baby’s bed with high, often slatted, often moveable sides, suitable for a child who has outgrown a cradle or bassinet.

A bed or cot for a baby, oscillating on rockers or swinging on pivots.

(British) A bed for a child older than a baby.

(figuratively) The place of origin, or in which anything is nurtured or protected in the earlier period of existence.

(nautical) A small sleeping berth in a packet ship or other small vessel

(figuratively) Infancy, or very early life.

A wicker basket.

An implement consisting of a broad scythe for cutting grain, with a set of long fingers parallel to the scythe, designed to receive the grain, and to lay it evenly in a swath.

A manger, a feeding trough for animals elevated off the earth or floor, especially one for fodder such as hay.

A tool used in mezzotint engraving, which, by a rocking motion, raises burrs on the surface of the plate, so preparing the ground.

The baby Jesus and the manger in a creche or nativity scene, consisting of statues of Mary, Joseph and various other characters such as the magi.

A framework of timbers, or iron bars, moving upon ways or rollers, used to support, lift, or carry ships or other vessels, heavy guns, etc., as up an inclined plane, or across a strip of land, or in launching a ship.

A bin for drying or storing grain, as with a corn crib.

A case for a broken or dislocated limb.

A small room or covered structure, especially one of rough construction, used for storage or penning animals.

A frame to keep the bedclothes from contact with the sensitive parts of an injured person.

A confined space, as with a cage or office-cubicle

(mining) A machine on rockers, used in washing out auriferous earth.

(obsolete) A job, a position; (British) an appointment.

(mining) A suspended scaffold used in shafts.

A hovel, a roughly constructed building best suited to the shelter of animals but used for human habitation.

(carpentry) A ribbing for vaulted ceilings and arches intended to be covered with plaster.

One’s residence, house or dwelling place, or usual place of resort.

(nautical) A basket or apparatus in which, when a line has been made fast to a wrecked ship from the shore, the people are brought off from the wreck.

A boxy structure traditionally built of heavy wooden timbers, to support an existing structure from below, as with a mineshaft or a building being raised off its foundation in preparation for being moved; see cribbing.

A rest for the receiver of a telephone, or for certain computer hardware.

A collection of quotes or references for use in speaking, for assembling a written document, or as an aid to a project of some sort; a crib sheet.

(contact juggling) A hand position allowing a contact ball to be held steadily on the back of the hand.

(obsolete) A minor theft, extortion or embezzlement, with or without criminal intent.

A mechanical device for tilting and decanting a bottle of wine.

(cribbage) The card game cribbage.

(transitive) To contain in or as if in a cradle.

(cribbage) The cards discarded by players and used by the dealer.

(transitive) To rock a baby to sleep.

(cryptography) A known piece of information corresponding to a section of encrypted text, that is then used to work out the remaining sections.

(transitive) To wrap protectively, to hold gently and protectively.

A small holiday home, often near a beach and of simple construction.

To lull or quieten, as if by rocking.

A snack or packed lunch, especially as taken to work to eat during a break.

To nurse or train in infancy.

(Canada) A small raft made of timber.

(lacrosse) To rock the lacrosse stick back and forth in order to keep the ball in the head by means of centrifugal force.

The stomach.

To cut and lay (grain) with a cradle.

A literal translation, usually of a work originally in Latin or Ancient Greek.

To transport a vessel by means of a cradle.

(slang) A cheat sheet or past test used by students; crib sheet.

To put ribs across the back of (a picture), to prevent the panels from warping.

(transitive) To place or confine in a crib.

A bed or cot for a baby, oscillating on rockers or swinging on pivots; hence, the place of origin, or in which anything is nurtured or protected in the earlier period of existence; as, a cradle of crime; the cradle of liberty.

To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.

Infancy, or very early life.

(transitive) To collect one or more passages and/or references for use in a speech, written document or as an aid for some task; to create a crib sheet.

An implement consisting of a broad scythe for cutting grain, with a set of long fingers parallel to the scythe, designed to receive the grain, and to lay it evenly in a swath.

To plagiarize; to copy; to cheat.

A tool used in mezzotint engraving, which, by a rocking motion, raises burrs on the surface of the plate, so preparing the ground.

(intransitive) To install timber supports, as with cribbing.

A framework of timbers, or iron bars, moving upon ways or rollers, used to support, lift, or carry ships or other vessels, heavy guns, etc., as up an inclined plane, or across a strip of land, or in launching a ship.

To steal or embezzle, to cheat out of.

A case for a broken or dislocated limb.

(Indian English) To complain, to grumble

A machine on rockers, used in washing out auriferous earth; - also called a rocker.

To crowd together, or to be confined, as if in a crib or in narrow accommodations.

The ribbing for vaulted ceilings and arches intended to be covered with plaster.

To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind.

The basket or apparatus in which, when a line has been made fast to a wrecked ship from the shore, the people are brought off from the wreck.

A manger or rack; a feeding place for animals.

To lay to rest, or rock, as in a cradle; to lull or quiet, as by rocking.

A stall for oxen or other cattle.

To nurse or train in infancy.

A small inclosed bedstead or cot for a child.

To cut and lay with a cradle, as grain.

A box or bin, or similar wooden structure, for storing grain, salt, etc.; as, a crib for corn or oats.

To transport a vessel by means of a cradle.

A hovel; a hut; a cottage.

To lie or lodge, as in a cradle.

A structure or frame of timber for a foundation, or for supporting a roof, or for lining a shaft.

A baby bed with sides and rockers

A structure of logs to be anchored with stones; - used for docks, pier, dams, etc.

Where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence;

A small raft of timber.

Birth of a person;

A small theft; anything purloined; a plagiarism; hence, a translation or key, etc., to aid a student in preparing or reciting his lessons.

A trough on rockers used by gold miners to shake earth in water in order to separate the gold

A miner's luncheon.

Hold gently and carefully;

The discarded cards which the dealer can use in scoring points in cribbage.

Bring up from infancy

To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.

Hold or place in or as if in a cradle;

To pilfer or purloin; hence, to steal from an author; to appropriate; to plagiarize; as, to crib a line from Milton.

Cut grain with a cradle scythe

To crowd together, or to be confined, as in a crib or in narrow accommodations.

Wash in a cradle;

To make notes for dishonest use in recitation or examination.

Run with the stick

To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind; - said of a horse.

Baby bed with high sides

A literal translation used in studying a foreign language (often used illicitly)

A card game in which each player is dealt 6 cards and discards one or two to make up the crib

Use a crib, as in an exam

Take unauthorized (intellectual material)

Line with beams or planks;