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Bach (New Zealand) A bach (pronounced 'batch' ) (also called a crib in the southern half of the South Island) is a small, often modest holiday home or beach house in New Zealand. Baches are an iconic part of the country's history and culture. In the middle of the ...

, a type of modest beach house, called a crib in the southern half of the South Island e.g. Otago and Southland *

Box crib A box crib or cribbing is a temporary wooden structure used to support heavy objects during construction, relocation, vehicle extrication and urban search and rescue. It is commonly used to secure overturned motor vehicles, and debris within co ...

, a wooden frame used to stabilise a heavy object during a rescue, jacking, construction, or moving operation *

Cheat sheet A cheat sheet (also ''cheatsheet'') or crib sheet is a concise set of notes used for quick reference. Cheat sheets were historically used by students without an instructor or teacher's knowledge to cheat on a test or exam. In the context of h ...

or crib sheet, a concise set of notes for quick reference *

Ciani Crib The Ciani EC.41/64 Crib or SSVV EC.41/64 Crib was a single seat, high performance glider designed and built in Italy in the 1960s. Only one was built. Design and development Edgardo Ciani's chief target with his Crib design was a glide angle of ...

, a single seat, high performance glider * Corn crib, a granary for drying and storing corn *

Crib (cryptanalysis) The known-plaintext attack (KPA) is an attack model for cryptanalysis where the attacker has access to both the plaintext (called a crib), and its encrypted version (ciphertext). These can be used to reveal further secret information such as secre ...

, a sample of known plaintext in codebreaking *

Crib barn Crib barns were a popular type of barn found throughout the U.S. south and southeast regions. Crib barns were especially ubiquitous in the appalachian Mountains, Appalachian and Ozark Mountain states of North Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennesse ...

, a popular type of barn found throughout the U.S. south and southeast regions *

Crib bridge Crib bridges were made from horizontally placed logs. The logs were laid first lengthwise, and then crosswise, in several layers. This consumed more trees than building trestle bridges, but they were easier to build without cranes or rams. Less ...

, a bridge built of logs or stones stacked like log cabins * Crib Goch, a ‘knife-edged’ arête in Gwynedd, Wales *

Crib lighthouse A Crib lighthouse is a type of lighthouse whose structure rests on a concrete or masonry foundation supported with wooden beams. The name "crib" refers to the wooden crib pier style of construction which was used as a foundation for lighthouses. ...

, a type of lighthouse whose structure rests on a concrete or masonry foundation supported with wooden beams *

Crib pier A crib pier is a type of pier built with the supporting columns made of 'cribs'.{{cite web , url = http://www.piers.co.uk/piers.htm , title = Piers , publisher = National Piers Society (2006) , accessdate = February 24, 2012 , url-status = de ...

, a type of pier built with supporting columns constructed like log cabins *

Cribbage Cribbage, or crib, is a card game, traditionally for two players, that involves playing and grouping cards in combinations which gain points. It can be adapted for three or four players. Cribbage has several distinctive features: the cribbag ...

, a card game *

Cribbing (horse) Cribbing is a form of Stereotypy (non-human), stereotypy (equine oral stereotypic behaviour), otherwise known as wind sucking or crib-biting. Cribbing is considered to be an List of abnormal behaviours in animals, abnormal, compulsive behavior see ...

, a bad habit of some horses *

Infant bed An infant bed (commonly called a cot in British English, and, in American English, a crib, or far less commonly, stock) is a small bed especially for infants and very young children. Infant beds are a historically recent development intended to c ...

, called a crib in American English *

Manger __NOTOC__ A manger or trough is a rack for fodder, or a structure or feeder used to hold food for animals. The word comes from the Old French ''mangier'' (meaning "to eat"), from Latin ''mandere'' (meaning "to chew"). Mangers are mostly used in ...

, a trough or box to hold food for animals * Mid-morning break for a snack, in

Cornish dialect The Cornish dialect (also known as Cornish English, Cornu-English, kw, Sowsnek Kernowek) is a dialect of English spoken in Cornwall by Cornish people. Dialectal English spoken in Cornwall is to some extent influenced by Cornish grammar, and o ...

Nativity scene In the Christian tradition, a nativity scene (also known as a manger scene, crib, crèche ( or ), or in Italian ''presepio'' or ''presepe'', or Bethlehem) is the special exhibition, particularly during the Christmas season, of art objects rep ...

, a depiction of the birth of Jesus as described in the gospels of Matthew and Luke * Timber crib dam, a dam built with heavy timbers in the manner of a log house *

Water crib Water cribs are offshore structures that collect water from close to the bottom of a lake to supply a pumping station onshore. The name crib is derived from the function of the structure—to surround and protect the intake shaft. Cities supplied ...

, an offshore structure that supplies water to an onshore pumping station

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