meaning of crawl
1. To move slowly by drawing the body along the ground, as a worm; to move slowly on hands and knees; to creep.
2. to move or advance in a feeble, slow, or timorous manner.
3. To advance slowly and furtively; to insinuate ones self; to advance or gain influence by servile or obsequious conduct.
4. To have a sensation as of insect creeping over the body; as, the flesh crawls. See Creep, v. i. , 7.
5. The act or motion of crawling; slow motion, as of a creeping animal.
6. A pen or inclosure of stakes and hurdles on the seacoast, for holding fish.
7. 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
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Related Words
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