1894 Brewer’s / C / Crib
To steal small articles. (Saxon, crybb; Irish, grib; our grab, grapple, grip, gripe, etc.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.