A Quick and Simple Dictionary

cribbing

1. Verb.  resent participle of crib.
2. Noun.  The members used to build a (structural) crib, usually of timbers or logs, but also of concrete, steel or even plastic; cribwork. .
3. Noun.  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, .
4. Noun.  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.
5. Noun.  A self-injurious tendency of certain horses to swallow air while slobbering and biting onto objects in and about their enclosure and regarded as an equine form of obsessive-compulsive disorder.