Crawl word meaning and definition

[noun] 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"
[noun] a very slow movement; "the traffic advanced at a crawl"
[noun] a swimming stroke; arms are moved alternately overhead accompanied by a flutter kick
[verb] move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground; "The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed"
[verb] swim by doing the crawl; "European children learn the breast stroke; they often don't know how to crawl"
[verb] show submission or fear
[verb] be crawling with; "The old cheese was crawling with maggots"
[verb] feel as if crawling with insects; "My skin crawled--I was terrified"

\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. 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.
\Crawl\ (kr?l), n. The act or motion of crawling; slow motion, as of a creeping animal.
\Crawl\, n. [Cf. {Kraal}.] A pen or inclosure of stakes and hurdles on the seacoast, for holding fish.

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