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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Crawl \Crawl\ (kr[add]l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Crawled} (kr[add]ld); p. pr & vb n. {Crawling}.] [Dan. kravle or Icel. krafla to paw, scrabble with the hands; akin to Sw kr[aum]la to crawl; cf LG krabbeln D. krabbelen to scratch.] 1. To move slowly by drawing the body along the ground, as a worm; to move slowly on hands and knees; to creep. A worm finds what it searches after only by feeling, as it crawls from one thing to another. --Grew. 2. Hence to move or advance in a feeble, slow, or timorous manner. He was hardly able to crawl about the room --Arbuthnot. The meanest thing that crawl'd beneath my eyes. --Byron. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: crawling adj 1: moving or progressing very slowly or laboriously especially by or as if by dragging the body along close to the ground; "a riverbank full of crawling crocodiles"; "a creeping tractor" [syn: {creeping}] 2: used of traffic; "bumper-to-bumper traffic" [syn: {bumper-to-bumper}] n : a slow creeping mode of locomotion (on hands and knees or dragging the body); "a crawl was all that the injured man could manage"; "the traffic moved at a creep" [syn: {crawl}, {creep}, {creeping}]
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