Crawl

Definition of Crawl

Pronunciation: kr?l

v. i.	1.	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 (krạld); p. pr. & vb. n. Crawling.] A worm finds what it searches after only by feeling, as it crawls from one thing to another. - Grew.
	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.	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.	To have a sensation as of insect creeping over the body; as, the flesh crawls. See Creep, v. i., 7.
n.	1.	The act or motion of crawling; slow motion, as of a creeping animal.
	1.	A pen or inclosure of stakes and hurdles on the seacoast, for holding fish.

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