cribbing

Noun

 * 1) The members used to build a (structural) crib, usually of timbers or logs, but also of concrete, steel or even plastic; cribwork.
 * 2) As a whole, the heavy structure built to support an existing structure from underneath, as with a mineshaft or when raising a building off its foundation, as for moving to another location,
 * After the Loma Prieta earthquake, they had to put cribbing under portions of San Francisco's Embarcadero Freeway, for fear it would collapse.
 * 1) * US Army Corps of Engineers site
 * If the structure is to be raised in place without relocation, once it is raised to the desired elevation the jacks are replaced with timber cribbing.
 * 1) The cribbing used to support anything from below or on a side, as with a retaining wall, or to prop up a piece of heavy machinery.
 * 2)  A self-injurious tendency of certain horses to swallow air while slobbering and biting onto objects in and about their enclosure; cribbing and windsucking are regarded as equine forms of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
 * 3) An act of plagiarism.
 * 4) * 1976, Bernice Rose, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), Drawing Now (issue 2, page 19)
 * cribbings from Leonardo's notebooks

Translations

 * Japanese: 齰癖