crawl¹ /kröl/

1. To move slowly with the body on or close to the ground
2. To move on hands and knees
3. To creep
4. To move slowly or stealthily
5. To behave abjectly or obsequiously
6. To be, or feel as if, covered with crawling things (with with)
7. To swim using the crawl stroke

1. The act of crawling
2. A slow pace
3. A swimming stroke in which the arms are held in front of the body and rotated from the shoulder alternately and the feet kicked up and down

crawlˈer noun

1. Someone who or something that crawls
2. An abject, obsequious or sycophantic person
3. A sluggish or slow person
4. A creeping thing
5. A heavy slow-moving vehicle, esp one that moves on caterpillar tracks
6. A baby's overall, a romper suit
7. A computer program that extracts information from sites on the World Wide Web in order to create entries for a search engine’s index

crawlˈing noun adjective

1. Creeping
2. Lousy, verminous

crawlˈingly adverb

crawlˈy adjective (crawlˈier; crawlˈiest) (informal)

1. With, or like the feeling of, something crawling over one
2. Creepy

crawler lane noun

An extra lane for the use of slow-moving vehicles on an uphill stretch of a road

crawling peg noun (economics)

A system of stabilizing prices or exchange rates by allowing a limited amount of rise or fall at predetermined intervals

crawlˈspace noun

A shallow area below a floor or above a ceiling, giving access to pipes and ducts

crawl² /kröl/

A pen for keeping fish or lobsters

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