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Entry 6 senses · 3 variants Webster, 1913

Crawl

/(kra̤l)/ · IPA /kɹɔl/
01 v. i. To move slowly by drawing the body along the ground, as a worm; to move slowly on hands and knees; to creep.
imp. & p. p. Crawled; p. pr. & vb. n. Crawling
  1. 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. 2.
    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.
  3. 3.
    To advance slowly and furtively; to insinuate one's self; to advance or gain influence by servile or obsequious conduct.
    “Secretly crawling up the battered walls.” — Knolles.
    “Hath crawled into the favor of the king.” — Shak.
    “Absurd opinions crawl about the world.” — South.
  4. 4.
    To have a sensation as of insect creeping over the body; as, the flesh crawls. See Creep, v. i., 7. See: Creep
02 n. The act or motion of crawling; slow motion, as of a creeping animal.
  1. 1.
    The act or motion of crawling; slow motion, as of a creeping animal.
03 n. A pen or inclosure of stakes and hurdles on the seacoast, for holding fish.
  1. 1.
    A pen or inclosure of stakes and hurdles on the seacoast, for holding fish.