Sentence:  He had seen so many lean years of faithful service when the enemy held the corner on all the official <WSD>cribs</WSD> that, now in the days of his party's fatness and of his own righteous reward, the habit of good, honest hustling stuck to him, and he lined up an array of pulls and indorsements that made him swell with happiness every time he went over the list. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A job, a position; (British), an appointment.