cribbage board
- noun
- /ˈkrɪbɪdʒ bɔrd/
:
tablero de cribbage
- During the family reunion, everyone gathered around the cribbage board to see who could score the highest.
Examples
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After finishing their game, they carefully placed the cards on the table next to the cribbage board.
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The men put away the cards and dismantled the cribbage board.
Fiction book (2000) -
When she hinted over a newly acquired cribbage board that she just didn't understand why a young woman like me...
Fiction book (2002) -
He pulled out an old cribbage board that his grandfather had made, excited to teach his friends the game.
Synonyms
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A board with many holes used to hang small items like tools to keep them tidy
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is strictly compositional: 'cribbage' names the card game and 'board' names the physical object, so together they denote the board used for cribbage (typically for keeping score). This is a regular noun+noun compound following common cross-linguistic patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
The cribbage board comes from the card game cribbage. It is a wooden board with rows of small holes where players push little pegs forward to count points, so the board is literally the tool for keeping the 'score'.