cribble

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/ˈkɹɪbəl/

noun

A coarse sieve or screen.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

nouncribble (plural cribbles)

plural cribbles

  1. Coarse flour or meal.

    Bread made of the whole Wheat is sometime called Cribble or fine Ravel Bread

    1696, Samuel Jeake, Λογιστολογία
verbcribble (third-person singular simple present cribbles, present participle cribbling, simple past and past participle cribbled)

present singular third person cribbles · participle present cribbling · participle past cribbled · past cribbled

  1. To pass something through a sieve.
adjectivecribble (comparative more cribble, superlative most cribble)

comparative more cribble · superlative most cribble

  1. obsoletecoarse

    1849, Henry Bullinger, H. I (translator), The Decades The gardens, with digging for novelties, are turned over and over, because we will not eat common cribble bread.

Origin

  1. Late Latincriblus“sieve”
  2. Frenchcrible
  3. Englishcribble

Borrowed from French crible, from Late Latin criblus (“sieve”).

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Rhymes & wordplay

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APA

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Chicago

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