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a very slow movement; "the traffic advanced at a crawl"

move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground; "The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed"

swim by doing the crawl; "European children learn the breast stroke; they often don't know how to crawl"

be crawling with; "The old cheese was crawling with maggots"

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a very slow movement; "the traffic advanced at a crawl"

move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground; "The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed"

swim by doing the crawl; "European children learn the breast stroke; they often don't know how to crawl"

To move slowly by drawing the body along the ground, as a worm; to move slowly on hands and knees; to creep.

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

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

To have a sensation as of insect creeping over the body; as, the flesh crawls. See Creep, v. i., 7.

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

To move slowly by drawing the body along the ground; to creep.

To creep or move on: to move feebly or slowly.

To creep; move feebly or slowly.

To move as a worm; move slowly; creep.

Crawlingly.

n. The act or motion of crawling; —a staked net for catching fish.