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Definition of Crawl

1. Verb. Move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground. "The streets crawl with crowds"; "The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed"

2. Noun. A very slow movement. "The traffic advanced at a crawl"

3. Verb. Feel as if crawling with insects. "My skin crawled--I was terrified"

4. Noun. A swimming stroke; arms are moved alternately overhead accompanied by a flutter kick.

5. Verb. Be full of. "The old cheese was crawling with maggots"

6. Noun. A slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body. "The traffic moved at a creep"

7. Verb. Show submission or fear.

8. Verb. Swim by doing the crawl. "European children learn the breast stroke; they often don't know how to crawl"

Definition of Crawl

1. v. i. To move slowly by drawing the body along the ground, as a worm; to move slowly on hands and knees; to creep.

2. n. The act or motion of crawling; slow motion, as of a creeping animal.

3. n. A pen or inclosure of stakes and hurdles on the seacoast, for holding fish.

Definition of Crawl

1. Verb. (intransitive) To creep; to move slowly on hands and knees, or by dragging the body along the ground. ¹

2. Verb. (intransitive) To move forward slowly, with frequent stops. ¹

3. Verb. (intransitive) To act in a servile manner. ¹

4. Verb. (intransitive with "with") See crawl with. ¹

5. Verb. (intransitive) To feel a swarming sensation. ¹

6. Verb. (intransitive) To swim using the crawl stroke. ¹

7. Verb. (transitive) To move over an area on hands and knees. ¹

8. Verb. (intransitive) To visit while becoming inebriated. ¹

9. Verb. (transitive) To visit files or web sites in order to index them for searching. ¹

10. Noun. The act of moving slowly on hands and knees etc, or with frequent stops ¹

11. Noun. A rapid swimming stroke with alternate overarm strokes and a fluttering kick ¹

12. Noun. (television film) A piece of horizontally scrolling text overlaid on the main image. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Crawl

1. to move with the body on or near the ground [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Crawl

craw-craw crawdad crawdaddies crawdaddy crawdads crawfish crawfish out crawfished crawfishes crawfishing

crawfordite crawk crawked crawking crawks crawl (current term) crawl in crawl space crawl spaces crawl with

crawlable crawled crawler crawlers crawlier crawliest crawling crawlingly crawls crawlspace

Literary usage of Crawl

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Trukese-English Dictionary =: Pwpwuken Tettenin Fóós, Chuuk-Ingenes by Ward Hunt Goodenough, Hiroshi Sugita (1990)
"crawl or creep up, clamber up, climb up, ascend, rise (of the sun). ... cause or help (someone) to aimlessly. creep, crawl, or climb. iii teesi (vo. ..."

2. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1885)
"Single rays separated from a star-fish crawl as fast as the entire animal, ... They also crawl up Fia. 10. perpendicular surfaces, and when inverted right ..."

3. Journal of Researches Into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries by Charles Darwin (1846)
"From the difficulty which these animals have in carrying their heads, they cannot crawl with ease when placed on the ground. I observed that one which I ..."

4. Trukese-English Dictionary =: Pwpwuken Tettenin Fóós, Chuuk-Ingenes by Ward Hunt Goodenough, Hiroshi Sugita (1990)
"crawl or creep up, clamber up, climb up, ascend, rise (of the sun). ... cause or help (someone) to aimlessly. creep, crawl, or climb. iii teesi (vo. ..."

5. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1885)
"Single rays separated from a star-fish crawl as fast as the entire animal, ... They also crawl up Fia. 10. perpendicular surfaces, and when inverted right ..."

6. Journal of Researches Into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries by Charles Darwin (1846)
"From the difficulty which these animals have in carrying their heads, they cannot crawl with ease when placed on the ground. I observed that one which I ..."

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