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crawling

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Word definitions for crawling in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.] To move slowly by ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
" Crawling " is a song by the American rock band Linkin Park . It is the second single from their debut album Hybrid Theory and is the fifth track on the album. It was released in 2001 as their second single and won a Grammy for Best Hard Rock Performance ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The motion of something that crawls. vb. (present participle of crawl English)

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. 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 ]

Usage examples of crawling.

At last, he saw Adelaide, alive with rats, crawling out on to the settee.

The thought of federal agents crawling around the blast site under fire helmets was a bit much for some marshals, especially since all but two of them were officially excluded from the probe.

Leaden daylight, passing through the panes, speckled the room with the watery-gray shadows of the hundreds of beads that tracked down the glass, and Sam was so edgy that he could almost feel those small ameboid phantoms crawling over him.

For there, side by side on the stone floor, are Agnes and the scullery-maid Janey, both with their backs to him and their arses in the air, crawling along on their hands and knees, dipping scrubbing-brushes by turns into a large pail of soapy water.

As the Dutch astrophysicist began crawling around and underneath the contraption, Nash went to help Kawakami fold up the discarded shrouds.

The blankets were crawling with lice, and such evidence as there was indicated that my future bedmates were less than genteel.

The stench of bitterroot took on a third dimension, a sharp-toothed rodent crawling through shadow.

The bag was half-filled with large shiny blackbeetles, crawling over each other in their efforts to get out of the bag.

After slagging the police off for all the random drug busts, he had been forced to go crawling off to them because some bastard had tried to torch his house.

Never missing a chance to get away from there and given a chance to play rifleman, crawling about in the snow, mud, and dirt, Cerro was, therefore, quite put out when Dixon had left him to deal with the farmer.

All during dinner, I felt him, like craylets crawling on my skin, slick and slimy and strange.

It was an astonishing sight, a series of towers, turrets, and crenellated walls, seemingly crawling up the rock itself.

But Venetia was crawling around on the bed, derriere wiggling, as she gathered up the ropes.

Diana turned and began frantically crawling across the dewy grass toward the trees in whose shadows Dinh was already hiding.

The thought of the dogs crashing through the jungle or crawling wounded the last few feet in mud and rain to save a position of Marines surrounded by enemy troops was just too much to give up, it seemed.