CRAWL
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Crawl (kr&asuml_;l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Crawled (kr&asuml_;ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Crawling.] [Dan. kravle, or Icel. krafla, to paw, scrabble with the hands; akin to Sw. kr&ä;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.
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A worm finds what it searches after only by feeling, as it crawls from one thing to another.
Grew.
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2. Hence, to move or advance in a feeble, slow, or timorous manner.
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He was hardly able to crawl about the room.
Arbuthnot.
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The meanest thing that crawl'd beneath my eyes.
Byron.
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3. To advance slowly and furtively; to insinuate one's self; to advance or gain influence by servile or obsequious conduct.
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Secretly crawling up the battered walls.
Knolles.
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Hath crawled into the favor of the king.
Shak.
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Absurd opinions crawl about the world.
South.
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4. To have a sensation as of insect creeping over the body; as, the flesh crawls. See Creep, v. i., 7.
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Crawl (kr?l), n. The act or motion of crawling; slow motion, as of a creeping animal.
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Crawl, n. [Cf. Kraal.] A pen or inclosure of stakes and hurdles on the seacoast, for holding fish.
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