Hypertext Webster Gateway: "crawl"
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 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Crawl \Crawl\ (kr?l), n.
The act or motion of crawling; slow motion, as of a creeping
animal.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Crawl \Crawl\, n. [Cf. {Kraal}.]
A pen or inclosure of stakes and hurdles on the seacoast, for
holding fish.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
crawl
n 1: a very slow movement; "the traffic advanced at a crawl"
2: a swimming stroke; arms are moved alternately overhead
accompanied by a flutter kick [syn: {front crawl}, {Australian
crawl}]
3: 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: {crawling},
{creep}, {creeping}]
v 1: move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body
near the ground; "The crocodile was crawling along the
riverbed" [syn: {creep}]
2: feel as if crawling with insects; "My skin crawled--I was
terrified"
3: be crawling with; "The old cheese was crawling with maggots"
4: show submission or fear [syn: {fawn}, {creep}, {cringe}, {cower},
{grovel}]
5: swim by doing the crawl; "European children learn the breast
stroke; they often don't know how to crawl"
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