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crawler
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Crawler \Crawl"er\ (kr?l"?r), n. One who, or that which, crawls; a creeper; a reptile.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 (context Australia obsolete English) A person who is abused, physically or verbally, and returns to the abuser a supplicant. 2 (context UK Australia slang English) A sycophant. Etymology 2
n. 1 A child who is able to creep using his hands and knees but is not able to walk. 2 (context sports English) A crawl swimmer. 3 A tractor crawler, a motorized vehicle that uses caterpillar tracks instead of wheels. 4 A software bot that autonomously follows connected paths such as webpage links.
WordNet
n. a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage [syn: sycophant, toady, lackey]
a person who crawls or creeps along the ground [syn: creeper]
terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers [syn: earthworm, angleworm, fishworm, fishing worm, wiggler, nightwalker, nightcrawler, dew worm, red worm]
Wikipedia
Crawler may refer to:
A robotic pipeline crawler developed by Röntgen Systems in 2014 that would crawl on the upward most tangent of a pipeline to scan for corrosion using primarily X-ray energy sources and digital detectors to provide live scanning data and video.
- Bottom crawler, an underwater exploration and recovery vehicle
- Crawler (band), a British rock band
- Crawler Crane a tracked crane
- Crawler, a person who crawls along the ground
- Crawler-transporter, a large tracked vehicle used by NASA to transport spacecraft
- Web crawler, a computer program that gathers and categorizes information on the World Wide Web
In BEAM robotics, a Crawler is a robot that has a mode of locomotion by tracks or by transferring the robot's body on limbs or appendages. These do not drag parts of their body on the ground.
There are various bands with the name Crawler
It was first created from the ashes of Back Street Crawler, following the death of guitarist, Paul Kossoff.
Usage examples of "crawler".
His head sticking over the chair back, The big-shot was taking a speedy ride, catercornered across the hallway, while Crawler and his pals gazed in wonderment.
The crawler lurched downslope, blasting out a fine spray of lichenophagous bacteria.
When he had eaten six of the crawlers he decided that he had had enough and pushed the rest of the heap back toward the noctambulo, who gathered them up without comment and set about devouring them.
Small-lives in large numbers and variety pattered about, nosing out grubs, picking crawlers off leaves and grassblades, munching on tender greens, sucking juice from plants or other animals, grubbing up roots and tubers of all kinds, a web of busy life invisible and vigorous and non-threatening.
Like the four-leggeds and wingeds, and swimmers and crawlers, like the movements of smoke and water, like the visions that come in our dreams, the wind is a message bearer.
About eleven the infantry began to go forward with an advance which would have astonished the martinets of Aldershot, an irregular fringe of crawlers, wrigglers, writhers, crouchers, all cool and deliberate, giving away no points in this grim game of death.
I vented some of my anger in driving uncounted generations of crawlers out of the corners of the ruined hall, but I was still seething inside.
The Mockers had been driven to ground, and the invaders, working for someone known only as the Crawler, had also suffered, as the Prince of Krondor had acted to restore order to his city.
Silden, and the apparent link between the Crawler and the Nighthawks at Kenting Rush, I can only come to one conclusion.
First, what is the relationship between the Nighthawks and the Crawler?
Perhaps those dark forces are sending additional agents to insure their ends, regardless of what the Nighthawks and the Crawler achieve.
In Baghdad it was three in the morning and the night-club crowd and pub crawlers who stayed a perpetual half hour ahead of closing time around the world, cheered him alcoholically.
Shadows were crossing the baulks -- workers deserting the dig, moving silently towards the sanctuary of the other crawler.
But when she left, she caught up with the rest of her brigade and directed them towards the nearest crawler, leaving the other -- the one containing his stateroom -- for him alone.
But the crawler was already at the foot of a flat hill, the same one which was displayed as a curved oval marked 211 on areographic maps.