Cribble

//ˈkɹɪbəl// adj, noun, verb

adj, noun, verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A coarse sieve or screen.
  2. 2
    Coarse flour or meal.

    "Bread made of the whole Wheat is sometime called Cribble or fine Ravel Bread"

Verb
  1. 1
    To pass something through a sieve.
Adjective
  1. 1
    coarse obsolete

    "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."

Synonyms

All synonyms
carvecharacterchiselcolandercradlecrease

Example

More examples

"Bread made of the whole Wheat is sometime called Cribble or fine Ravel Bread"

Etymology

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

More for "cribble"

SynonymsSentencesPronunciationTranslate

Next best steps

Find stronger synonymsSee usage examplesCheck pronunciationBrowse writing guides

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.