Anagrams of: CRIBBINGS_

• any triangular fore-and-aft sail (set forward of the foremast)

• refuse to comply

• shift from one side of the ship to the other

• poor handwriting

• an aimless drawing

• write down quickly without much attention to detail

• write carelessly

• rectangular block of clay baked by the sun or in a kiln; used as a building or paving material

• a good fellow; helpful and trustworthy

• To stop working (of an electronic device)

• the act of cleaning a surface by rubbing it with a brush and soap and water

• any glutinous material used to fill pores in surfaces or to stiffen fabrics

• hard close-grained wood of any of various birch trees; used especially in furniture and interior finishes and plywood

• any betulaceous tree or shrub of the genus Betula having a thin peeling bark

• a switch consisting of a twig or a bundle of twigs from a birch tree; used to hit people as punishment

• consisting of or made of wood of the birch tree

• whip with a birch twig

• an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect

• be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics

• shift from one side of the ship to the other

• a bluish-white lustrous metallic element; brittle at ordinary temperatures but malleable when heated; used in a wide variety of alloys and in galvanizing iron; it occurs naturally as zinc sulphide in zinc blende

• coat or cover with zinc