A break during a working day.
the hours were 35 per week, including 30 minutes paid crib time daily
Example sentencesExamples
- Shift workers shall be allowed up to 30 minutes' cribtime during the shift but the machinery shall be kept fully working and production shall not be impeded.
- On two occasions he had had to speak to them about knocking off fifteen minutes before the stipulated cribtime.
- Crib-time comes and the mates get together at the bottom of the shaft to share a candle.
- At crib time, he sat on a slag heap with his father and Snow, eating sandwiches and drinking tin mugs of sweetened cold tea.
- The shift boss yells "Righto", which is the signal that crib time is over.