The profile of these cribs was that of a right-angled triangle, the slanting side up stream.
Here were built and placed a row of stone-filled log cribs in a double row down stream to define the channel and to hold the drive in it and away from the shallows near either bank.
The construction of it was crude, consisting merely of log cribs filled with stone and debris placed at intervals across the bed of the stream, against which slanted logs made a face.
The next operation is to fix spiking cribs f, to the rock, about 10 or 12 feet from the lower crib, according to the length of the planks to be used for the tubs.
The main cribs g, g, are then to be placed as counterforts, for the support and strength of the tubbing.
In this operation, three kinds of cribs are employed; called wedging, spiking, and main cribs.
I thought I saw the cows walking; but it was only into their little cribs and paddocks at the back of the shops.
The husked corn filled the cribs to bursting, the wheat lay in yellow heaps on the granary floor, and the hay, stacked high, stood along the north side of the low, sod barn in a sheltering crescent.
The river was very low, and on the dazzling white sand between the three centre piers stood squat cribs of railway-sleepers, filled within and daubed without with mud, to support the last of the girders as those were riveted up.
There was a shriek above the roar of the water, the complaint of the spans coming down on their blocks as the cribs were whirled out from under their bellies.
Not only must every land-owner devote his broadest fields to the cultivation of the much-needed cereal, but one tenth of all his crop must be stacked for public use in cribs at the side of the railroad.
Out of four cribs and a cradle arose five cones of bed-clothes, with a pretty little curly head surmounting each cone, and ten eyes blazing with amazement.
When she had reached the top of the first flight she was a child again, back in one of the little white iron cribs in her own ward; and it was the day when the first stringent consciousness came to her that she hated Trustee Day.
The superstructures of composite breakwaters erected by the United States for harbours on the shores of Lake Superior were formerly in some cases composed of timber cribs floated into position and sunk by filling them with rubble stone.
Another wooden crib is then placed on the top of this brickwork, and above this, two cast-iron segmental wedging cribs with a broad bed also wedged perfectly tight.
The cribs forming the foundation of each set of tubbing are generally much more massive and costly than the segments of tubbing.
If stulls are insufficient, cribs or bulkheads (Fig.
The girders of the three centre piers - those that stood on the cribs -were all but in position.
The river was very low, and on the dazzling white sand between the three centre piers stood squat cribs of railway~sleepers, filled within and daubed without with mud, to support the last of the girders as those were riveted up.
Well, and don't we know other cribsas good as this--and just under the very nose of the authorities too?
Supposing there was no boozing-kens, and patter-cribs like this, how would such gentlemen as you two get on?
Separate cribsor baskets for babies--clean mattresses covered with rubber sheeting and clean flannel blankets are to be used.
Infants' cribs or baskets shall have firm, clean mattresses, covered with rubber sheeting and washable pads.
At one end stood twelvecribs in which lay twelve babies, most of them fast asleep.
Several of them had followed Gwen, and were popping mischievous fingers through the bars of the cribs and poking the babies; some were indulging in a free fight over a toy.
The unfortunate persons placed in these cribs were kept from Saturday night until Monday; their food being administered to them in the cribs.
In reply it was asserted that the room was twenty-six feet long, and the number of cribs fifteen.
On the rear cribs another crew pulled in the contrary direction; about the middle of the band stood the pilot, urging his gangs with gestures to greater efforts.
As he rushed along, the raftsmen's boat crossed his bows, going to the main raft below for ropes and material to secure the cribs coming down intact.
Soon a fringe of single planks came down stream, then cribs and pieces of cribs; half the band was drifting with the currents, and half was "hung up" on the rocks among the breakers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cribs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
