crawl : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: crawl	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for crawl
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
crawl n a very slow movement; "the traffic advanced at a crawl" a swimming stroke; arms are moved alternately overhead accompanied by a flutter kick Synonym(s): crawl, front crawl, Australian crawl a slow 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" Synonym(s): crawl, crawling, creep, creeping v move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground; "The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed" Synonym(s): crawl, creep feel as if crawling with insects; "My skin crawled--I was terrified" be full of; "The old cheese was crawling with maggots" show submission or fear Synonym(s): fawn, crawl, creep, cringe, cower, grovel swim by doing the crawl; "European children learn the breast stroke; they often don't know how to crawl"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Crawl \Crawl\ (kr?l), n. The act or motion of crawling; slow motion, as of a creeping animal.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Crawl \Crawl\, n. [Cf. {Kraal}.] A pen or inclosure of stakes and hurdles on the seacoast, for holding fish.