Crawl (EP)
WordNet
noun
(1) A slow 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"
(2) A very slow movement
"The traffic advanced at a crawl"
(3) A swimming stroke; arms are moved alternately overhead accompanied by a flutter kick
verb
(4) Move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground
"The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed"
(5) Swim by doing the crawl
"European children learn the breast stroke; they often don't know how to crawl"
(6) Show submission or fear
(7) Be crawling with
"The old cheese was crawling with maggots"
(8) Feel as if crawling with insects
"My skin crawled--I was terrified"
WiktionaryText
Etymology
Origin unknown; probably Scandinavian (compare Swedish kravla, Danish kravle)
Verb
- To creep; to move slowly on hands and knees, or by dragging the body along the ground.
- Clutching my wounded side, I crawled back to the trench.
- To move forward slowly, with frequent stops.
- The rush-hour traffic crawled around the bypass.
- To act in a servile manner.
- Don't come crawling to me with your useless apologies!
- To teem; to be covered or swarming (with).
- The crime scene was crawling with police and reporters.
- To feel a swarming sensation.
- The horrible sight made my skin crawl.
- To swim using the crawl stroke.
- I think I'll crawl the next hundred metres.
- To move over an area on hands and knees.
- The baby crawled the entire second floor.
- To visit while becoming inebriated.
- They crawled the downtown bars.
- To visit files or web sites in order to index them for searching.
- Yahoo Search has updated its Slurp Crawler to crawl web sites faster and more efficient.
Noun
- The act of moving slowly on hands and knees etc, or with frequent stops
- A rapid swimming stroke with alternate overarm strokes and a fluttering kick
- A piece of horizontally scrolling text overlaid on the main image.