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English
Etymology
Borrowed from French crible, from Late Latin criblus (“sieve”).
Pronunciation
Noun
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
cribble (third-person singular simple present cribbles, present participle cribbling, simple past and past participle cribbled)
- To pass something through a sieve.
Adjective
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.