cribble
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French crible, from Late Latin criblus (“sieve”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cribble (plural cribbles)
- A coarse sieve or screen.
- Coarse flour or meal.
- 1696, Samuel Jeake, Λογιστολογία:
- Bread made of the whole Wheat is sometime called Cribble or fine Ravel Bread
Verb edit
cribble (third-person singular simple present cribbles, present participle cribbling, simple past and past participle cribbled)
- To pass something through a sieve.
Adjective edit
cribble (comparative more cribble, superlative most cribble)
- (obsolete) coarse
- 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.
- 1849, Henry Bullinger, H. I (translator), The Decades