Crawl

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vi to move or advance in a feeble, slow, or timorous manner.

II. Crawl ·noun The act or motion of crawling; slow motion, as of a creeping animal.

III. Crawl ·noun A pen or inclosure of stakes and hurdles on the seacoast, for holding fish.

IV. Crawl ·vi To have a sensation as of insect creeping over the body; as, the flesh crawls. ·see Creep, ·vi, 7.

V. Crawl ·vi To advance slowly and furtively; to insinuate one's self; to advance or gain influence by servile or obsequious conduct.

VI. Crawl ·vi To move slowly by drawing the body along the ground, as a worm; to move slowly on hands and knees; to Creep.

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