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crib cuddy


A place where meals (crib) was eaten in mines in Broken Hill. It was usually an area cut into the rock face beside a drive (qv): We had to keep our cribs in metal crib tins because the rats in the crib cuddy were as big as bloody cats and could gnaw through anything.