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I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English ~b; akin to Old High German krippa manger, and perhaps to Greek griphos reed basket Date: before 12th century a manger for feeding animals, an enclosure especially of framework: as, a stall for a stabled animal, a small child's bedstead with high enclosing usually slatted sides, any of various devices resembling a crate or framework in structure, a building for storage ; bin , 3. a small narrow room or dwelling ; hut , shack , a room or shack used for prostitution, the cards discarded in ~bage for the dealer to use in scoring, 5. a small theft, plagiarism , a literal translation, a summary and key to understanding a literary work, something used for cheating in an examination, creche 1, II. verb (~bed; ~bing) Date: 1605 transitive verb confine , cramp , to provide with or put into a ~, pilfer , steal , intransitive verb 1. steal , plagiarize , to use a ~ ; cheat , to have the vice of ~bing, ~ber noun