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Crawling - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Crawling : (noun)
1: 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" [syn: crawl,
creep, creeping]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Crawl \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.
Based on WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003)
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