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crawl space

Word definitions for crawl space in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Crawl Space is an album by American flugelhornist Art Farmer featuring performances recorded in 1977 and released on the CTI label.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. A narrow opening underneath the bottom of a building (or storey) used to give access to pipes, cables and other utilities n. A narrow opening underneath the bottom of a building (or storey) used to give access to pipes, cables and other utilities

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. low space beneath a floor of a building; gives workers access to wiring or plumbing [syn: crawlspace ]

Usage examples of crawl space.

The major fell to his knees beside a barracks and tried to get his bulk into the crawl space beneath.

With hands and hammer I began clearing a jagged, foot-high crawl space.

In the confined crawl space leading back to the Trade Route, there was a scuffle and some wailing when he tried to detach himself so he could move ahead.

A lowered ceiling of acoustical tile on tracks, concealing a crawl space and probably electrical conduits.

It turned out that the plumber came in my absence and opened the trap door to the crawl space.

Please God, let that funny little sound be the ancient swamp cooler or the pipes or the wind wheezing through the vent in the crawl space between the ceiling and the eaves.

A picture emerges: they are in a narrow crawl space, obviously designed by and for engineers, intended to give access to a few thousand linear miles of pipes and wires that have been forced through some kind of bottleneck.

This morning I had been removed from the cage, a tether put about my left ankle, given a rag and pan, and set to clean the crawl space beneath the slave platforms.

Charlie led them out of the crawl space and back into the house, the squirrel people staying close to the walls and moving quickly so as not to be seen from the street.

Some nights she even went down and hid in the crawl space under the smokehouse.

He knew how to remove the access plate that exposed a crawl space into the bomb-bay.

The bomb-bay was too small for both of us, so I stayed at the end of the crawl space and watched.

There was always a price to be paid, and when he opened the crawl space he'd broken into earlier that day her struggles became so fierce that he could no longer hold her, and she fell onto the concrete floor with a muffled cry.

Beneath the first hold is the lower hold, but this is little more than a damp crawl space, containing the bilge, and sand, which, on Gorean vessels, commonly serves as ballast.