Hypertext Webster Gateway: "crawling"
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) 1.7 (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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