cribble

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English

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

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cribble (plural cribbles)

  1. A coarse sieve or screen.
  2. Coarse flour or meal.
    • 1696, Samuel Jeake, Λογιστολογία:
      Bread made of the whole Wheat is sometime called Cribble or fine Ravel Bread

Verb

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cribble (third-person singular simple present cribbles, present participle cribbling, simple past and past participle cribbled)

  1. To pass something through a sieve.

Adjective

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cribble (comparative more cribble, superlative most cribble)

  1. (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.