Thread: Wet Whisker Crossing Hunt & How To Make A Venison Fart Cushion

Wow, a Crib might be a baby bed/cot.

My town started life with a ton of Cornish/Welsh miners setting here to work the mines.
In fact many pushed their belongings about 350km from Burra in South Australia.
My surname/Ancestors circa 1880 something came from that area too.

Here Crib is lunch, a term used at the mines. The lunch was kept in a small tin with a semi circle lid . Tin to keep the rats out and the semi circle lid to hold the Thermos Flask.
At lunch they played Crib, as card game using match sticks as markers to move along the board or keep score.

So lunch became crib you sit in the "Crib" room, playing Crib.